Gods of the Ebike

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706 – 1749). French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment. Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation and commentary on Isaac Newton's work Principia Mathematica. The translation, published posthumously in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation.
 
Hehe... "ebike heathen"??? See the thread here "List (Thread) of folks that HATE the electric bicycle":
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=53226

Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968). Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. (Element 109, meitnerium, named in her honour.)
 
Big list - without the main men :)
Oliver Heaviside : It was he who made Maxwell's equations work in the real world, he also did Laplace's work (also not mentioned yet) moving differential equations into ordinary algebra (the heaviside notation used 'p' instead of 's' & the unit object was a step rather than an impulse) but he got there and used it first.
What about Cavendish - he practically invented and discovered everything(!!) but was so paranoid & shy he wouldn't publish...
What about Babbage, really inventing the whole of computing in the early 19th century - and of course Ada Lovelace, the first applications programmer.
What about Tommy Flowers, who built the first operational electronic computer, practically won ww2 with it & was forced by the british establishment to destroy it and burn his own blueprints while they gave it away to the yanks for nothing.... Not to mention Alan Turing, who may have been driven to suicide by that same establishment...

PS maxwell's was the first unification theory - 20th century physics in the 1900s
 
ACK! ... OK, first, Oliver Heaviside. Per that Wickid Pee thingee:
Oliver Heaviside FRS (1850 – 1925) a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques for the solution of differential equations (later found to be equivalent to Laplace transforms), reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of mathematics and science for years to come.

Oh goody... "at odds" with "establishment". Sorta like some ebikers... :)
 
"What about Cavendish"... Henry? Per Wicked thingee:
"Henry Cavendish FRS (1731 – 1810) a British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. Cavendish is noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper "On Factitious Airs". Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name.

A notoriously shy man, Cavendish was nonetheless distinguished for great accuracy and precision in his researches into the composition of atmospheric air, the properties of different gases, the synthesis of water, the law governing electrical attraction and repulsion, a mechanical theory of heat, and calculations of the density (and hence the weight) of the Earth. His experiment to weigh the Earth has come to be known as the Cavendish experiment."
 
LockH said:
ACK! ... OK, first, Oliver Heaviside. Per that Wickid Pee thingee:
Oliver Heaviside FRS (1850 – 1925) a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques for the solution of differential equations (later found to be equivalent to Laplace transforms), reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of mathematics and science for years to come.

Oh goody... "at odds" with "establishment". Sorta like some ebikers... :)


Oliver Heaviside. A hero of mine in the field of physics and in the electromagnetic fields field specifically. Maxwell originally wrote his "four equations" as about two dozen equations (I have lost count myself in all the excitement, may be more or may be less) in a math notation that was inscrutable to engineers. Heaviside re-wrote them as 4 equations, plus the Famous Wave Equation. Heaviside then published his re-write of Maxwell's work in a math notation that was easily comprehensible to electrical engineers. Any time you read "The Maxwell Equations " in a physics textbook, you are actually reading the Heaviside Equations. You could make a good case that Heaviside strongly catalized the industrial growth of the late 1800s and early 1900s by making the Maxwell work conveniently accessible to electrical engineers.

Back befo' dere waz a e-bike, dere had to be a bike. Am I right or what? Lemme tell you 'bout who invented the first bike.

Leonardo outta Vinci. All his pals call him Leonardo DaVinci. Its like calling somebody Big Al from Jersey.
 
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (On still alive list, I guess. In 2004 these two physicists at the Univ. of Manchester, UK used sticky tape to peel layers off graphite, `til only one layer remained. ("Graphene"))

Above info seen on Alt.Planet ES/YT vid:
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=58086&start=25#p920730
 
Another on the Watch List I guess, Dr. John Bannister Goodenough (On ES currently "Search found 25 matches:+Goodenough") re lithium flavoured batteries, and etc.
 
Errrm... Reminded just now about Gilbert Newton Lewis.

Got his own Wikid thingee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_N._Lewis

In part:
ForMemRS (1875-1946)an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding. Lewis successfully contributed to thermodynamics, photochemistry, and isotope separation, and is also known for his concept of acids and bases.
 
Ferdinand Porsche. 1875-1951. (Per Wicked Pea "During his five years with Béla Egger, Porsche first developed the electric hub motor.")
 
Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979)... a rebellious sort (like some ebikers maybe. Called elsewhere "Hitlers test pilot" hehe).






(Her "weapon of choice" onshore? The bettery-powered electric motor, as used for her travels by light-weight two/three wheeled vehicles, of course.








You know. As she "got of a certain age".)
 
Eugene Morrison Stoner (1922 — 1997. Attended high school Long Beach, CA and afterwards the Vega Aircraft Company installing "armament".)

"In 1990, he joined Knight's Armament Company (KAC) to create the Stoner Rifle-25 (SR-25), which currently sees military service as the United States Navy Mark 11 Mod 0 Sniper Weapon System. While at KAC, he also worked on yet another version of the Stoner Weapons System, called the Stoner 96. Among his last designs were the SR-50 rifle, the Colt 2000, and improvements to the Bettery-Electric (sp?) powered cycle" here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Stoner
 
Holy crap! Just spent 2 days researching sir humphry davy.wow thanks LFP.There already is royal institution of endlessphere!count me out im a hack.
 
Darwin
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Without him we would still believa in fossil fuel. :mrgreen:
 
Lee Iacocca? He definitely had 'The Vision' but was about 10-15 years early to market.
 
Hehe... Darvin. Seen elsewhere:
"Country's 'oldest' bicycle shop, Howes Cycles of Cambridge, to close after 173 years of serving customers - including Charles Darwin"

(Article fails to mention his modifications re bettery-electric motor added.)

Re Lee Iacocca bike:
http://www.nycewheels.com/lee-iacocca-bicycle.html

Unfortunately, Lee not quite dead yet.
 
Re dreaded "ABB" Corp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABB_Group
"ABB's history goes back to the late 19th century. ASEA was incorporated by Ludwig Fredholm in 1883 and Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) was formed in 1891 in Baden, Switzerland, by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri as a Swiss group of electrical companies producing AC and DC motors, generators, steam turbines and transformers.

And:
ABB resulted from the 1988 merger of the Swedish corporation Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA, Engrish translation: General Swedish Electric Company) and the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC); the latter had absorbed the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon in 1967. (Oerlikon Engine Works (MFO) produced the first electric locomotive ("EVA") in Switzerland).
 
The first machine for the production of a current constant in direction and intensity is said to have been the electro-magnetic ring machine of Dr. Antonio Pacinotti, of Pisa, Italy (17 June 1841 – 24 March 1912), in 1860.


Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Pacinotti

Part "best known for inventing an improved form of direct-current electrical generator, or dynamo, which he built in 1860 and described in a paper published in "Nuovo Cimento", 1865."


(Italian-language PDF pages re Pacinotti starting XXIV.)
http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/3/42/memoriegiovanili03roux/memoriegiovanili03roux.pdf
 
Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 – October 25, 1934) . "Father of Electric Traction".
 
Michael Holroyd Smith (1847-1932), "and his giant slot cars". Seen here:
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=8099&p=532575#p546431


On ES... Poor guy, no entry on Wiki yet.
 
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