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In 1828 Thomas Fowler patented the first convective heating system. This was the precursor to the modern central heating system. In 1840 he invented a calculating machine, built in wood, that was much admired by his contemporaries Augustus De Morgan, Charles Babbage, George Airey and many others. The machine used a tertiary calculating model.

There have been many Canadians amongst the pioneers in nuclear science, medicine, technology and geology. Also included are non-Canadians who worked in Canada and contributed to Canadian nuclear science and technology.
Bertram Brockhouse, 1918 - 2003
Gordon L. Brooks, 1930 - 2003
John Douglas Cockroft, 1897 - 1967
Sylvia O. Fedoruk, 1927 -
John S. Foster, 1921 - 2001
Douglas James Gordon, 1920 - 2000
Bertrand Goldschmidt, 1912 - 2002
James Lorne Gray, 1913 - 1987
Jules Guéron 1907-1990

JOHN COUCH ADAMS (1819--1892), British astronomer, was born at Lidcot farmhouse, Laneast, Cornwall, on the 5th of June 1819. His father, Thomas Adams, was a tenant farmer; his mother, Tabitha Knill Grylls, inherited a small estate at Badharlick. From the village school at Laneast he went, at the age of twelve, to Devonport, where his mother's cousin, the Rev. John Couch Grylls, kept a private school. His promise as a mathematician induced his parents to send him to the university of Cambridge, and in October 1839 he entered as a sizar at St John's College.

The vision of the Australian Computer Museum Society is to establish a number of museums that will provide a vibrant living history of computing in Australia, such that future generations can understand the early beginnings of the industry and the work of those who were pioneers in a technology that now impacts almost every aspect of today's business, commerce, industry and government and more affects the daily life of every Australian.

Sir Thomas Browne was born in London on October 19, 1605, educated at Winchester and Oxford, and trained for the practise of medicine. After traveling on the Continent he finally settled as a physician in Norwich, and enjoyed a distinguished professional reputation. Later he became equally famous as a scholar and antiquary, and was knighted by Charles II on the occasion of the King's visit to Norwich in 1671. In 1641 he married, and he was survived by four of his ten children. He died on his seventy-seventh birthday.

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The Research Group on the Social Aspects of Health and Prevention (GRASP) is a multidisciplinary research centre attached to the University of Montréal. It comprises a group of researchers, research professionals, and graduate students interested in analyzing social dynamics in the areas of health and well-being. They have in common an interest in and a concern for issues relating to population health, an approach with a comprehensive vision of the social aspects of health and prevention. A number of GRASP research projects are thus undertaken jointly by researchers in different disciplines in order to bring to bear a broad range of viewpoints and theoretical orientations.

The mission of the San Diego Aerospace Museum, a non-profit institution, is to provide for the public an educational, scientific and cultural institution devoted to the history of aviation and space flight. This is accomplished through the aircraft and spacecraft collections and the chronology of achievements of the men and women who made significant contributions in aviation and aerospace, with particular emphasis on San Diego's long and rich aerospace history.

As provided by its charter, the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation promotes research in the field of telecommunications and carries out activities devoted to the knowledge and diffusion of Guglielmo Marconi’s scientific activity. The Foundation is managed by a board of directors appointed by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage.

It is offered as a free service to the community of scholarly historians and theoreticians of psychology with the goal of promoting the rapid dissemination of new work in the field. Authors who wish to post papers to the archive should first consult the HTP Prints Policy Document.
HTP Prints is edited and administered by Christopher D. Green of the History & Theory of Psychology Program at York University (Toronto, Canada), and it is supported by the kind technical assistance of York University's Faculty of Arts Academic Technology Services.