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...In 1664, for example, Robert Hooke inserted a pipe into the trachea of a dog and pumped in air with bellows....
...Thomas Farley will leave the New York Stock Exchange as president of the Big Board to head a special-purpose acquisition company launched by Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point....
...Thomas Toth, a managing director at Wilshire Associates, the consultancy, says the amount of excess capital is “very substantial” and has helped push up prices paid for deals....
...Robin Speke from Toronto and Thomas Klein from Bern in Switzerland met at Parnham....
...The Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Bloodworth, didn’t help. His first response to the nascent fire was: “Pish! A woman could piss it out.” There seems to have been a shortage of women....
...A trip to the Clockmakers’ Museum in the Science Museum in London, for example, reveals that Robert Hooke invented the balance spring in around 1660, George Graham introduced the sweep seconds hand in the...
...It’s odd that [Thomas] Tompion, the most famous of the makers, in round figures made something like 500 clocks and 5,000 watches.”...
...And the unillusioned Thomas Hardy saw the weather as nature’s indifference: the rain that lashes Thomasin Yeobright in The Return of the Native is just “prosy rain”....
...Professor Thomas Davenport, and Hervé Couturier, head of R&D at Amadeus, think so....
...Some parts of this narrative are reasonably well known – for example, the work of Robert Hooke in the 17th century and of Boulton & Watt in the 18th century....
...Thomas Edison set up perhaps the world’s first industrial research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1876....
...The central strand is the contention in the 1660s between the then ageing Hobbes and the “Gresham divines” (subsequently the Royal Society), principally Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke, over whether the true...
...And it depicts the founding members of the Royal Society as a fractious bunch, who sidelined certain characters, such as the natural philosopher Robert Hooke and the philosopher Thomas Hobbes....
...Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby between 1828 and 1841, is perhaps the most renowned head of all time, immortalised in Thomas Hughes’ classic novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays....
...The bodily purity-obsessive Thomas Tryon’s journal displays a monomania for Cockayne’s themes....
...The famous range from Robert Hooke, 17th century inventor and architect, to footballer Bobby Moore....
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