The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's KulturfahrplanThe Timetables of History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. |
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... physicist , pioneered in the Second Law of Thermodynamics , d . ( b . 1796 ) Sir William Crookes , Eng . physicist and chemist , b . ( d . 1919 ) Baron Georges Cuvier , Fr. naturalist , founder of comparative anatomy , d . ( b . 1769 ) ...
... physicist , pioneered in the Second Law of Thermodynamics , d . ( b . 1796 ) Sir William Crookes , Eng . physicist and chemist , b . ( d . 1919 ) Baron Georges Cuvier , Fr. naturalist , founder of comparative anatomy , d . ( b . 1769 ) ...
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... physicist Sir Oliver Lodge discovers electrical precipitation Karl Auer von Welsbach invents the incandescent gas mantle Niels Bohr , Dan . physicist , b . ( d . 1962 ) Pasteur devises a rabies vaccine to cure hydrophobia Sir Francis ...
... physicist Sir Oliver Lodge discovers electrical precipitation Karl Auer von Welsbach invents the incandescent gas mantle Niels Bohr , Dan . physicist , b . ( d . 1962 ) Pasteur devises a rabies vaccine to cure hydrophobia Sir Francis ...
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... physicist , d . ( b . 1837 ) 5th Earl of Carnarvon , the discoverer of Tutankhamen's tomb , d . ( b . 1860 ) Sir James Dewar , Scot . chemist and physicist , d . ( b . 1842 ) Charles P. Steinmetz , Amer . electrical engineer , d . ( b ...
... physicist , d . ( b . 1837 ) 5th Earl of Carnarvon , the discoverer of Tutankhamen's tomb , d . ( b . 1860 ) Sir James Dewar , Scot . chemist and physicist , d . ( b . 1842 ) Charles P. Steinmetz , Amer . electrical engineer , d . ( b ...
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