The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[dextercioby]

Here's the story behind it all:

Back in the XI-the grade,my phys teacher said it and attributed wrongly to Lavoisier,and this was supposed to have happen ~1777/8.I took it and believed it and last year in November,when i was at a library at KUL,i read a 1935 book on Lavoisier in which this fact comes across:the young chemist Lavoisier read the book written by Black (maybe you can find the title) around 1750 in which Black described his experiments in which he thought of using a balance.

Then Lavoisier put this idea to good use...

Daniel.

P.S.Black was more of a physician than a chemist.

 

[Gokul43201]

I have one ready; if neither of you (MB/Evo) minds ...

 

[zoobyshoe]

I had thrown scales & balances out as an answer because they've been around long before BC, but Dex is correct as far as being revolutionary to chemistry.

The reason it is a sucky clue is that every major early breakthrough in chemistry could accurately be described as a "revolution".

 

[Moonbear]

I have one ready; if neither of you (MB/Evo) minds ...

Fine with me...go for it.

 

[dextercioby]

Alright,i think Moonbear won it,unless any of you mentors want to change the replies...

Moonbear,you're up.

Daniel.

 

[Gokul43201]

In 1932 a 10-pack of this was packaged differently.

<chew on it; I'll be back in a little while>

 

[Evo]

Fine with me...go for it.

go gokul...

 

[Gokul43201]

gone already

 

[zoobyshoe]

In 1932 a 10-pack of this was packaged differently.

<chew on it; I'll be back in a little while>

Obvious guess: chewing gum.

 

[Evo]

In 1932 a 10-pack of this was packaged differently.

<chew on it; I'll be back in a little while>

Wrigley's gum

 

[Moonbear]

In 1932 a 10-pack of this was packaged differently.

<chew on it; I'll be back in a little while>

This can't be it, but being a BBQ type weekend, hot dogs and hot dog buns come to mind (maybe that's when they made it 8 hot dogs and 10 buns so you need to keep buying more packages?)

 

[Gokul43201]

A 10-pack of Wrigley's gum was the first product to wear a barcode.

I'm going to give it to Zoovo.

 

[brewnog]

Wow, that was quick! I missed the entire round

Bed time, night all x-x-x-x-x-x

 

[zoobyshoe]

Evo, you go.

 

[Evo]

I've got one.

The nuclear era was defined by this invention. The inventor credited was held prisoner by the Russians and forced to invent this.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I've got one.

The inventor credited was held prisoner by the Russians and forced to invent this.

The lead lined anti radiation suit?

 

[Evo]

The lead lined anti radiation suit?

heheh good guess

 

[zoobyshoe]

heheh good guess

Meh...is it right?

 

[Evo]

Meh...is it right?

No, but having one around this wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

[Gokul43201]

kryptonite I'm off...

 

[Evo]

a hint - what it produces is bursts of atomic energy and splits in two easily

 

[Huckleberry]

x-ray laser pointers?

 

[dextercioby]

Sorry,Evo...

http://www.electricityforum.com/news/mar04/centrifuge.html

Dr.Gernot Zippe "The invention was the uranium centrifuge, and around the world, millions of them now spin in high-security plants often ringed by barbed wire."

I guess he was a common aquiaintance of mr.Kurchatov.

Daniel.

 

[Evo]

Sorry,Evo...

http://www.electricityforum.com/news/mar04/centrifuge.html

Dr.Gernot Zippe "The invention was the uranium centrifuge, and around the world, millions of them now spin in high-security plants often ringed by barbed wire."

I guess he was a common aquiaintance of mr.Kurchatov.

Daniel.

Correct!

 

[dextercioby]

I'll let Moonbear pick the challange.She owes one for her "balance"

Daniel.

 

[honestrosewater]

Okay, it's MB's turn, but until she comes back, here's an easy one.

He is well-known for calling a swan a crow, but he may not have actually said it. Who is the other suspect?

 

[Gokul43201]

The original guy is no doubt, ol' Shakespeare (R&J). Clueless on the other suspect...

 

[honestrosewater]

Erm, you mean the person usually attributed with having called a swan a crow is Shakespeare? That isn't who I was talking about- did he also do that?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Erm, you mean the person usually attributed with having called a swan a crow is Shakespeare? That isn't who I was talking about- did he also do that?

He's all confused. Greene called Shakespeare (aka The Swan of Avon) an "upstart crow". Now the other suspect, who may actually have written this criticism is who you're asking for, right?

 

[honestrosewater]

Right, the "other" Greene. Meh, I don't mean this person is suspected of being Greene- just of writing the quote...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Well, I am sure I read about this in Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess, but I can't for the life of me remember who the other suspect was, except that it was a rival playwright (not Johnson). Something about fox or foxes?

 

[zoobyshoe]

OK the fox thing is spurious. That's a vague memory of "Volpone".

My guess is: Christopher Marlowe

 

[honestrosewater]

No fox or foxes. It's easy to find if you're a googler. If you aren't, this guy only started writing after the publication of Greene's Groatsworth. His name appears in the title of several of Shakespeare's plays.

Well, with the new clue, Marlowe's out.

Okay, you probably haven't heard of him, but maybe you can get it from other clues. His first name appears in the title of several of Shakespeare's plays.
His last name rhymes with something I presume every self-respecting Brit has in their kitchen and a heavy genre of music.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The only Henry I'm finding is Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

 

[honestrosewater]

Nope, but Henry is right. Do you know the thing I presume every self-respecting Brit has in their kitchen? It also rhymes with a heavy genre of music.