DISCOVERY, INVENTIONS AND EXPLORATION

wildrover · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:34 pm Post subject:

There's a lot of germans with processes named after them and I don't know which are German-Americans. I'll start the guessing with Mr. Haber and his ammonia.

JUS · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:26 pm Post subject:

not either of those Laughing

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wildrover · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:50 am Post subject:

Herr Kroll or Herr Born?

JUS · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:58 am Post subject:

clue is S
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JUS · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:32 pm Post subject:

S for sulphur Embarassed

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JUS · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:58 pm Post subject:

no one know what the process is called for extracting sulphur?
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wildrover · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject:

Yep - it's Frasch but would never have got it from the photo..

JUS · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:52 pm Post subject:

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wildrover · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:37 am Post subject:

In 1776 the Spanish set up a Catholic mission and a small village called Yerba Buena grew up around the mission. In the 1820s the village became part of another country. In the middle of the 19th century the village of 1,000 people changed hands again after a war and the conquerors renamed it after the original Catholic mission with the name it still bears today. So what is its name today?

Stevie C · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:33 am Post subject:

Would think it is going to be in Texas or California So I'll try LA.

tonto · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:19 pm Post subject:

San Francisco?
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wildrover · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:24 pm Post subject:

Unlucky Stevie - good logic to get the right part of the world but the clue was in the question. It was renamed after the mission of San Francisco...mind you I suppose it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that there would be a mission of Los Angeles so I take that back - just unlucky.

tonto · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject:

1762 who invented the Spinning frame?
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Stevie C · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:37 pm Post subject:

If it's the same thing as the Spinning Jenny it's Hargreaves.

tonto · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject:

Spinning Jenny was two years later?
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