Who is this guy?
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He contributed greatly to the fields of chemistry, control systems and optics in the following ways:
1) He is credited by many people including Christian Huygens as teh inventor of the compound microscope though many sources assign it to the people he learnt lens grinding and optics from.
2)In 1604, King James I received him at his court in England. He obtained the attention of the English court through the amazing perpetual motion machine. It actually 'worked' through shifts in air temperature and pressure. It had a sealed glass tub where liquid contracted or expanded to enable a clock to completely rewind.
3)Using William Bourne's design, he built the first navigable submarine under orders from King James I which was tested many times by the English Navy but never put to use.
4)He was involved in a drainage project in East Anglia. He is also credited with the invention of thermostats and thermoscopes.
5)His most famous work was Ein Kurzer Tractac von der Elementum, an alchemical tract on transmutation of elements.
6) To re-oxygenate the air inside submarines, he generated oxygen by heating in a metal pan to make it emit oxygen. That would also turn the nitrate into sodium or potassium oxide or hydroxide which would tend to absorb carbon dioxide from the air around. That may explain how his men were not affected by CO2 build up. Just to be safe, he accidentally made a crude rebreather nearly three centuries before the invention of the device.
Also, he has a lunar crater named after him.
Identify the great guy.
Sparky cracks it
It is Cornelius van Drebbel
1) He is credited by many people including Christian Huygens as teh inventor of the compound microscope though many sources assign it to the people he learnt lens grinding and optics from.
2)In 1604, King James I received him at his court in England. He obtained the attention of the English court through the amazing perpetual motion machine. It actually 'worked' through shifts in air temperature and pressure. It had a sealed glass tub where liquid contracted or expanded to enable a clock to completely rewind.
3)Using William Bourne's design, he built the first navigable submarine under orders from King James I which was tested many times by the English Navy but never put to use.
4)He was involved in a drainage project in East Anglia. He is also credited with the invention of thermostats and thermoscopes.
5)His most famous work was Ein Kurzer Tractac von der Elementum, an alchemical tract on transmutation of elements.
6) To re-oxygenate the air inside submarines, he generated oxygen by heating in a metal pan to make it emit oxygen. That would also turn the nitrate into sodium or potassium oxide or hydroxide which would tend to absorb carbon dioxide from the air around. That may explain how his men were not affected by CO2 build up. Just to be safe, he accidentally made a crude rebreather nearly three centuries before the invention of the device.
Also, he has a lunar crater named after him.
Identify the great guy.
Sparky cracks it
It is Cornelius van Drebbel
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Cornelius Drebbel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Drebbel