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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Day 1: Tuesday, 5 July 1687 Isaac Newton – Publication of the Principia
Day 2: Thursday, 24 November 1831 Michael Faraday – Reading of ‘Experimental Researches in Electricity’
Day 3: Monday, 18 February 1850 Rudolf Clausius – Publication of ‘On the Moving Force of Heat’
Day 4: Monday, 11 March 1861 James Clerk Maxwell – Publication of ‘On Physical Lines of Force’
Day 5: Monday, 26 December 1898 Marie Curie – Publication of ‘On a New, Strongly Radio-active Substance’
Day 6: Tuesday, 21 November 1905 Albert Einstein – Publication of ‘Does the Inertia of a Body depend on its Energy Content?’
Day 7: Saturday, 8 April 1911 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – Discovery of superconductivity
Day 8: Tuesday, 16 December 1947 John Bardeen and Walter Brattain – First demonstration of a working transistor
Day 9: Wednesday, 8 August 1962 James R. Biard and Gary Pittman – Patent filed for light emitting diode
Day 10: Wednesday, 1 October 1969 Steve Crocker and Vint Cerf – First link of the internet initiated
The eleventh day?
Further Reading
Picture credits
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About the Author
Copyright
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