Calendar of Industrial Pioneers
1922; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 110; Issue: 2772 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/110829a0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)American Environmental and Regional History
ResumoOne of the pioneers of the cold storage industry, Coleman was first a teacher of chemistry and then chemical engineer to Young's Paraffin Works, Bathgate, Glasgow, where he devised means of liquifying gases, and with Bell introduced the Bell-Coleman dry-air refrigerating system which revolutionised the meat-carrying trade.December 19, 1877• Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff died.-Ruhmkorff was born in Hanover in 1803 and in 1819 went to Paris as assistant in a laboratory.There he started in business for himself and became a successful electrical instrument maker.In 1844 he invented a thermo-electric battery, and in 1851 brought out the Ruhmkorff coil for which he afterwards received a prize of 5o,ooo francs at the French Exhibition of Electrical Apparatus.December 20, 1904.Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell died.son of an engineer of Newcastle, Bell studied at Edinburgh and at the Sorbonne, and in 1854, with his brothers, founded the Clarence Iron Works on the Tees, the firm ultimately employing some 6ooo men: Bell was distinguished as an investigator and writer on metallurgy,
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