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Drebbel, Cornelius
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography; 700+ Words Drebbel, Cornelius ( b . Alkmaar, Netherlands...1633) mechanics, optics, technology . Drebbel ’ s father, Jacob Jansz, a...Latin in his later years. As a young man Drebbel was apprenticed to the famous engraver...
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 394 Words Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel , 1572-1634, Dutch inventor, physicist, and mechanician. His major inventions were an atmospherically driven clock and the...
Cornelius Drebbel.
NYPL Digital Gallery; Jan 1, 1934; ; 259 Words
The Navy Times Book of Submarines: A Political, Social and Military History
Naval War College Review; Jul 1, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...Frederico Gianibelli, and Cornelius Drebbel are joined by that of Robert Boyle (formulator...wartime assault using submerged explosives, Drebbel is credited with the first craft capable...begins Harris's correction of folklore. Drebbel's craft, rowed by twelve strong men...
Undersea first that did the impossible
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); Dec 21, 2007; 446 Words ...invented in the 1620s by Dutchman Cornelius Drebbel, who was inspired by an idea by Englishman...Bourne published in 1578. The replica Drebbel submarine was recreated for a BBC documentary...the time. "I'm delighted that the Drebbel will be displayed at Falmouth as it represents...
Submarines and Submersibles
Water:Science and Issues; ; 700+ Words ...horizontally underwater was Dutch engineer Cornelis Drebbel. Around 1620, Drebbel built submersibles that resembled two wooden rowboats...through waterproofed holes. Historians consider Drebbel's vessels the first practical use of a maneuverable...
Control freaks: from mercury to silicon chips, thermostatic controls have evolved tremendously.(techtopic)
Reeves Journal; Jan 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...thermostat was created by Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel around the beginning of the 1600's to control the temperature of a boiler. Drebbel's thermostat was a variation on Galileo...the expansion properties of mercury, Drebbel was able to control a series of levers...
WHAT IT TAKES TO GET A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Roanoke Times & World News; Jan 21, 2006; ; 700+ Words ...early 1600s, a Dutch inventor working in England, Cornelius Drebbel, created the first submarine. Oar-powered, it contained...sodium hydroxide, which absorbed carbon dioxide from the air. Drebbel's scrubber wasn't intentional, but one made by Briton...
Journey to the bottom of the sea
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); Feb 1, 2008; 700+ Words ...Attention is next drawn to a brown wooden version with oars, The Drebbel, a replica of the very first submarine designed in the 1620s...techniques, materials and methods originally developed by Cornelius Drebbel, the Dutchman who invented the submarine. It is a marvel...
The social context of innovation: bureaucrats, families and heroes in the early industrial revolution.(Book Review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Dec 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words ...around 1620, when the Dutch mechanic and alchemist Cornelius Drebbel conducted a series of experiments on naval weaponry at the...successfully built the first steam-pressure engine, developing Drebbel's original idea. In 1712, Newcomen installed the atmospheric...
Going Independent: Building on an instinct for business How three engineers launched a high-profile design consultancy from a kitchen.
The Independent - London; Sep 18, 2001; ; 700+ Words In 1624 an English inventor named Cornelius Drebbel designed what some claim was the world's first manned submarine...of the most sophisticated digital technology to replicate Drebbel's design for a BBC series set to go out next year, titled...
What it takes to get a breath of fresh air.
Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA); Jan 21, 2006; 700+ Words ...early 1600s, a Dutch inventor working in England, Cornelius Drebbel, created the first submarine. Oar-powered, it contained...sodium hydroxide, which absorbed carbon dioxide from the air. Drebbel's scrubber wasn't intentional, but one made by Briton...
Our blue planet: ocean exploration.
Technology and Children; Dec 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...developed to increase the amount of air to the person below the surface. Then in 1620, Cornelius Drebbel designed the first working submersible boat. Drebbel experimented with his submarine in the Thames River near London. While the craft did not go...
Marvel at life under the ocean wave
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); Jan 21, 2008; 700+ Words ...replica of the world's first ever submarine. Built by Cornelius Drebbel as long ago as 1620, this four-oared, underwater rowing machine has to be seen to be believed." Drebbel was a Dutch inventor who came and worked for King James I. His...
Evolution of the submarine, a long process
New Straits Times; Aug 26, 2000; ; 606 Words ...have theorised a submarine, in 1578. Dutchman Cornelius van Drebbel is generally credited with building the first successful underwater...Thames in England. This craft went just below the surface. Drebbel is said to have used air tubes supported on the water surface...
Submarine
UXL Encyclopedia of Science; 700+ Words ...known submarine to be built was by Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel. It consisted of greased leather over a wooden framework...During a demonstration for English king James I in 1620, Drebbel's vessel was successfully piloted just under the surface...
Private view.(Viewpoint essay)
Medical Marketing & Media; Mar 1, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...Wolfrick Mindfritz was the leading proponent of the Schwarz-Drebbel Algorithm which stated: "The number of boundary lattice points...surprise. Herr Professor Mindfritz took a semester to explain the Drebbel Algorithm. An ad in a journal, a sales rep in a hospital...
Municiones Politicas/ Asuntos belicos.(Enfoque)
Reforma (México D.F., México); Mar 31, 2002; 700+ Words ...cargados con material explosivo. El primer submarino capaz de navegar fue construido... En 1620 por el holands Cornelis Drebbel. Sobre una estructura de madera tens cuero engrasado y remos que sobresalan en ajustadas lengetas. Reciba ventilacin a travs...
Microscope, Compound
Medical Discoveries; 700+ Words ...using his invention. It is now believed that Janssen's son fabricated the story. Meanwhile, Dutch scientist Cornelius Drebbel claimed that he had constructed the first compound microscope in 1619. The astronomer Galileo (1564-1642) also reported...
Huygens Family
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World; ; 700+ Words ...broadened his early training by exposing him to the experimental science of Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) and Cornelius Drebbel (1572 – 1633). Enamored of John Donne's (1572 – 1631) poetry, he translated nineteen poems into...
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