wHO WAS ROBERT HOOKE?
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Robert Hooke, b 18 July 1635, d 3 March 1703. Best known for Hooke's law (Stress is proportional to strain, i.e. if you pull an elastic band, it gets longer)\n\nRobert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of all time. The inventor of, amongst other things, the iris diaphragm in cameras, the universal joint used in motor vehicles, the balance wheel in a watch, the originator of the word 'cell' in biology, he was Surveyor of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666, architect, experimenter, and worked in astronomy. He fell out with Newton, and certainly had a difficult temperament. He deserves more from history than he received in his lifetime.\n\nRobert Hooke was born at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, son of John Hooke, curate at All Saints' Church. The church stands at the end of what is now Hooke Road, which also has the Hooke Museum. Robert Hooke was one of the most brilliant and versatile of seventeenth-century English scientists, but he is also one of the lesser known; his persona and his contributions are far outweighed in public perception by those of Newton and of Wren. \n\nNo likeness exists of Robert Hooke. Hooke was origianlly buried at St Helen's Bishopsgate, but his bones were moved to 'somewhere in North London' in the 19th century, so his final burial place is unknown.\n\nHe is described by two people. Firstly his friend John Aubrey, on Hooke in middle life:\n\n'He is but of midling stature, something crooked, pale faced, and his face but little below, but his head is lardge, his eie full and popping, and not quick; a grey eie. He haz a delicate head of haire, browne, and of an excellent moist curle. He is and ever was temperate and moderate in dyet, etc.'\n\nRichard Waller knew the elderly Hooke, embittered by his controversies with Christiaan Huyghens and his feeling that he had been cheated by Newton:\n\n'As to his person he was but despicable, being very crooked, tho' I have heard from himself, and others, that he was strait till about 16 Years of Age when he first grew awry, by frequent practicing, with a Turn-Lath . . . He was always very pale and lean, and laterly nothing but Skin and Bone, with a meagre aspect, his eyes grey and full, with a sharp ingenious Look whilst younger; his nose but thin, of a moderate height and length; his mouth meanly wise, and upper lip thin; his chin sharp, and Forehead large; his Head of a middle size. He wore his own hair of a dark Brown colour, very long and hanging neglected over his Face uncut and lank....'\n\nThis is not a flattering description; even Aubrey's is hardly complimentary.\n\nHooke came to Westminster School during the first decade of Dr Busby's 55 year incumbency as Head Master. He remained on good terms with Busby, indeed the only remaining building that is certainly Hooke's architecture alone is the parish church at Willen, in Buckinghamshire, which was Busby's living. At Westminster Hooke was said to have acquired mastery of ancient languages, learned to play the organ, 'contrived severall ways of flying', and mastered the first six books of Euclid's Elements in a week.\n\nHooke acquired a place as chorister at Christ Church Oxford, leaving Westminster in 1653. The chorister role may have been simply that Hooke received a modest endowment, since the Anglican Church was abolished between 1643 and 1660. In Oxford Hooke met those who would go on to form the Royal Society, and where he was encouraged in a wide variety of scientific endeavours. In 1658 he became assistant to Robert Boyle, where his mechanical skills were of use especially in the construction of the improved version of the air pump of Otto Guericke described in Boyle's New Experiments PhysicoMechanicall (1660). In 1662 Hooke was appointed Curator of Experiments to the newly founded Royal Society, being responsible for the experiments performed at its weekly meetings. This role was as that of a
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The wire hanger we use today was inspired by a clothes hook that was patented by O. A. North of New Britain, Connecticut. \nAlbert J. Parkhouse, an employee of Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company in Jackson, Michigan, created a coat hanger in 1903, in response to co-workers’ complaints of too few coat hooks. He bent a piece of wire into two ovals with the ends twisted together to form a hook. Parkhouse patented his invention, but it is not known if he profited from it. \nSchuyler C. Hulett received a patent in 1932 for an improvement which involved cardboard tubes screwed onto the upper and lower portions to prevent wrinkles in freshly laundered clothes. \n\nThree years later Elmer D Rogers created a hanger with a tube on the lower bar which is still used today. \n\nThomas Jefferson invented the the early wooden coat hanger, the hideaway bed, the calendar clock and the dumbwaiter.
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He was always Captain James Hook... The name just kinda had some irony to it after he lost it.
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I put "wire rope" + 1848 into the Yahoo search engine and came up with John A. Roebling, a German immigrant and engineer who invented wire rope and had a factory in Trenton, NJ. The famous landmark would be the Brooklyn Bridge.\n\nIf you need more info, try what I did in your search engine. There is a lot of information, plus the building of the Brooklyn Bridge is a fascinating story, particularly with regard to Roebling himself. Some great old photos, too. Thanks for this interesting question.  I learned something new today.
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Do you mean George Stephenson? It helps if you spell the name correctly.\n\nThere's plenty of information on the Web, including this:\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0846668.html
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I found this I hope it helps somewhat\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baskerville
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With him died many of the details we'd like to know today about the famous catch, which is memorialized today in fishing displays and museums from Texas to Tokyo . \n\nhttp://www.mrlurebox.com/GeorgePerryBass.htm\n\nI don't know.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ripley
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Archimedes was the first scientist to test their theories through practical experiments. His most famous discovery was buoyancy through the bathtub experiment. After its discovery, he is believed to have run naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting Eureka or I have found it. He was also responsible for a number of inventions such as Archimedes screw.
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Are you sure you have the name spell correctly? and the first was Robert?\n\nI could not find anything but the following
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He called Watson. Alexander Graham Bell and Watson invented the telephone.
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did you mean Helmut Tacke?
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This goes to the suggestion, attributed by a Y! Q/R Answerer on the French list, to a commentator on a French Radio talk show "Grosses Têtes" citing Jules Ferry (19th Century Minister of Education, who is credited with the establishment of the right to free secular education in France): that instead of capital punishment, convicts should have their eyes gouged out.\n\nI've been unable to confirm the attribution, and am still trying.
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Robert Hooke coined the word when he compared the cells he saw in a cork to cells (small rooms) monks lived in.
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Britain was the first country to abolish hanging in the year of 1951.\nThe last woman to be hanged was Ruth Ellis.\nThe last person to be hanged was Timothy Evens.\nMr Timothy Evans was subsequently pardoned. He was Innocent.
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John Harrison developed longitude.\n\nLatitude is a bit more difficult to determine and is mostly about mathematics but I believe mathematician Karl Gauss had something to do with it. But you should research that some more.
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The same place yo can find many other answers to your questions - Wikipedia.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke%27s_law