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celebrates Elijah McCoy (b. 1844), the Black Canadian-American engineer whose inventions improved the efficiency of locomotives & steam engines.

He is often cited as the inspiration for the expression, "The real McCoy"

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2022-05-02

Charles Willson Peale was talking about before it was cool.

So far as I know, he is also the only person to be the subject of two posts in a single month.

Further details: https://t.co/zLA4rLQbSY

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2022-04-29

Elizabeth Gwillim, English artist who created these paintings of a great cormorant (L) and purple heron (R), is 's

https://t.co/D4oyZ6DefP

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2022-04-21

The visualization of animals in order to categorize their position in the great chain of being was one of the primary interests of natural history, read more in Notes and Records https://t.co/UzWiVmRsl8

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2022-04-07

That's all for this podcast playlist! Be sure to follow for updates about future & programs, as well as news about our research fellows.

Oh, and before I forget, here's the source of the image at the start of the thread!

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2022-02-22

How applied entomology saved California's lucrative orange industry in the late 1800s, with imported Australian ladybugs combatting the cottony cushion scale: https://t.co/HmesOd9OML

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2022-01-06

Edinburgh journal of natural history and the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier from 1835-1840 at - volume one (https://t.co/4GYLFBtegN) and volume two (https://t.co/8wUg7bPAtQ).

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2022-01-02

Happy 315th birthday to Émilie du Châtelet, the subject of today's Du Châtelet was the author of Institutions de Physique & the 1st French translation of Newton's Principia, both of which are in 's rare book collection.

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2021-12-17

Claude-Louis Berthollet, a French was born in 1748. Berthollet accompanied during his invasion of Egypt. Learn more about Berthollet in his profile: https://t.co/2rwprb4dqu

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2021-12-10

Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist who accompanied during his invasion of Egypt, is 's

https://t.co/q20ELxq0KD

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2021-12-09

Did you know that 46 exhibition catalogs, dating from 1956 to 2016, are now available online?

Check it out by visiting our digital collections: https://t.co/WTAk6f4xKc

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2021-11-25

Admiral Horatio Thomas Austin, a British naval officer, died in 1865. Austin led an expedition to the Arctic in search of the crew and ships of Sir John Franklin. Learn more about Austin in his profile: https://t.co/nQy0Eyl2si

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2021-11-17

Horatio Thomas Austin, British naval officer who led an expedition to the Arctic to determine the fate of the Franklin expedition, is 's

https://t.co/JfPNyaevGa

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2021-11-16

Louis-Bertrand Castel, a French natural was born in 1688. Castel proposed the creation of an "ocular harpsichord" that would play colors instead of sounds. Learn more about Castel in his profile: https://t.co/hZAJu07XKh

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2021-11-16

Louis-Bertrand Castel, the French natural philosopher who proposed the creation of an "ocular harpsichord" that would play colors instead of sounds, is 's

https://t.co/uK9O9PltZ1

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2021-11-15

Andorian-colored Wound Man from 1533 edition of Physica by Hildegard of Bingen ⚔️Art by Robert, one of our new Student Library Assistants in the https://t.co/I2jzj2LIvb

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2021-11-01

Excited to tune into the first session of Money & Knowledge in the Global 1980s. Today we'll be discussing:

* Big oil & Entrepreneurship w/
* Biotech & cancer biology w/Angela Creager
* asteroid detection efforts w/Matt Stanley

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2021-10-30

William Hazledine, an English died in 1840. Hazledine collaborated with Thomas Telford to construct some of Britain's greatest bridges. Learn more about Hazledine in his profile: https://t.co/s7azFtuYQ0

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2021-10-27

Andreas Cellarius, the German/Dutch cartographer responsible for one of the most beautiful books ever published (Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661), is 's

https://t.co/aOw7w6De15

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2021-10-25

Umberto Boccioni, an Italian was born in 1882. Boccioni was one of the most influential members of an Italian school of painters known as Futurists. Learn more about Boccioni in his profile: https://t.co/TlGPtoIVho

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2021-10-20