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    Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪ ˈʃaːkɔbzoːn ˈdrɛbəl]; 1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the...
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    inventors; namely: Galileo, Santorio Santorio, Robert Fludd, and Cornelius Drebbel. However, the general pneumatic principle of the thermoscope was used...
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    Drebbel is a small lunar impact crater named after Cornelius Drebbel that is located to the northeast of the large walled plain Schickard, in the southwestern...
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    a lab sometime around 1600. Sendivogious taught his technique to Cornelius Drebbel who, in 1621, applied this in a submarine. Isaac Newton devoted considerably...
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    view. In the early 17th century, water organs were built in England; Cornelius Drebbel built one for King James I (Harstoffer, 1651), and Salomon de Caus...
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    Columbia University Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0231121989. OCLC 785781471. Cornelius Drebbel air conditioning. Franklin, Benjamin (June 17, 1758). "Archived copy"...
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    considerations and scientific intuition. The European scientists Cornelius Drebbel, Robert Fludd, Galileo Galilei and Santorio Santorio in the 16th and...
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    design to Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1574. The Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel was employed in the Office of Ordnance by King Charles I of England...
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  • uranographer (died 1625) Charles Bouvard, French herbalist (died 1658) Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor (died 1634) Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer...
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    regulate tank water level in the flush toilet. The Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel (1572-1633) built thermostats (c1620) to control the temperature of...
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    as 200 BCE. Negative feedback was implemented in the 17th century. Cornelius Drebbel had built thermostatically controlled incubators and ovens in the...
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  • (1641–1704), military engineer Laurens Janszoon Coster (1370–1440), printer Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633), inventor and engineer Eise Eisinga (1744–1828), astronomer...
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  • Croatian Fausto Veranzio who designed a bicable passenger ropeway 1620 – Cornelius Drebbel builds the world's first known submarine, which is propelled by oars...
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  • underwater rowing boat was eventually put into action by the Dutchman Cornelius Drebbel in 1620, and Nathaniel Symons demonstrated a 'sinking boat' in 1729...
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    navigable submarine is designed by William Bourne and built by Dutchman Cornelius Drebbel. 1625 Early experiments in water desalination are conducted by Sir...
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  • horseback. 1 Devon and Cornwall: Thomas Newcomen et al. 2 London: Cornelius Drebbel et al. 3 South: Robert Hooke et al. 4 Special – Egypt 5 Special –...
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  • Civil Engineers; founder member of the Royal Astronomical Society Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633) – inventor of the first navigable submarine Keith Duckworth...
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  • physician, a founder of occupational medicine (died 1714) November 7 – Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor who built the first navigable submarine (born 1572)...
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    gas in the ambient pressure volume of the rebreather. Around 1620, Cornelius Drebbel discovered that heating saltpetre (potassium nitrate) would generate...
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  • (1932) Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633): http://www.drebbel.net/Tierie.pdf: 63 Tierie, Gerrit (1932) Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633): http://www.drebbel.net/Tierie...
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    femmes in which he describes a method of assisted breech delivery. Cornelius Drebbel invents the thermostat. June 29 – Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer...
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    control systems including temperature regulators (invented in 1624; see Cornelius Drebbel), pressure regulators (1681), float regulators (1700) and speed control...
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    Various scholars in this period investigated the topic. In 1607 Cornelius Drebbel in "Wonder-vondt van de eeuwighe bewegingh" dedicated a Perpetuum...
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  • (1866–1930), American industrial chemist, known for bromine extraction Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist Vratislav Ducháček...
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  • book to contain images of organisms viewed through the microscope. Cornelius Drebbel produces an early form of magic lantern or slide projector. The first...
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    poet, and philosopher Michael Drayton of England (1563–1631), poet Cornelius Drebbel of the Netherlands (1572–1633), inventor Jeremias Drexel of Bavaria...
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    to the late 19th century. In the early 17th century, the Dutchman Cornelius Drebbel, in the employ of King James I of England, invented the spar torpedo;...
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    Iran–Iraq War. The first navigable submarine was built in 1624 by Cornelius Drebbel, it could cruise at a depth of 15 feet (5 m). However, the first military...
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  • workers, and c. 30 crew. Publication of Novum Organum by Francis Bacon. Cornelius Drebbel demonstrates the first navigable submarine in the River Thames; his...
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  • given to firing his pistol inside the sub and shouting "Sieg Heil, Cornelius Drebbel!". Unfortunately, the two inhabitants of Ice Station Zebra cannot...
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