Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of Pangaea in 1912, suggesting that the continents were once joined together in a single supercontinent. This theory laid the foundation for the modern theory of plate tectonics.
Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott both explored Antarctica at the same time in 1911. Amundsen was aware of Scott's objective, but Scott was not aware that Amundsen was right behind him. Roald Amundsen got there first on 14th of December, 1911. Amundsen reported that he saw no sign of Scott. Scott reached the South Pole on 17th of January, 1912, acknowledging in his diary that Amundsen had got there a month earlier. The last members of the Scott expedition was found dead by a relief party two years later in 1913.
Douglas Mawson's 1911-1914 expedition took place in Antarctica. They set off from Australia and had several base camps, including the main one at Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay. The expedition covered various regions of East Antarctica, including the Adelie Coast and the George V Land.
While a "burg" may or may not be on a river, a "burgh" is supposed to always be where one or more rivers converge. "In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names decided that the final h was to be dropped in the names of all cities and towns ending in burgh. (Throughout the period 1890-1911 city ordinances and council minutes retained the h.) In 1911, after protest from citizens who wished to preserve the historic spelling, the United States Board on Geographic Names reversed its decision and restored the h to Pittsburgh."Ref:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname.htmlhttp://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/27-05-1091.pdf
Scots or Scotland was in many ways responsible for the "invention" of the modern, industrialized, democratic world. If one considers that"developed," then Scots were responsible. Below is a list of inventions or discoveries often held to be in some way Scottish.Road transport innovationsMacadamised roads (the basis for, but not specifically, Tarmac): John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)[2] and Thomas McCall (1834-1904)The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822-1873)The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929) [11]Civil engineering innovationsTubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)Falkirk Wheel: Initial designs by Nicoll Russell Studios, Architects and engineers Binnie Black and Veatch (Opened 2002)The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832) [14]The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)Dock design improvements: John Rennie (1761-1821)Crane design improvements: James Bremner (1784-1856)Power innovationsCondensing steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736-1819Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754-1839)The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)The Clerk cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clerk (1854-1932)Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)Wave-powered electricity generator:By South African Engineer Stephen Salter in 1977Shipbuilding innovationsEurope's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)John Elder & Charles Randolph (Marine Compound expansion engine)Heavy industry innovationsCoal mining extraction in the sea on an artificial island by Sir George Bruce of Carnock (1575). Regarded as one of the industrial wonders of the late medieval period.Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)The Fairlie, a narrow gauge, double-bogie railway engine: Robert Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889)Agricultural innovationsThreshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719-1811)Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979Communication innovationsPrint stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782-1853)Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899) [49]The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957) [50]The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888-1946)[5][6]Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)Publishing firstsThe King James version of the Bible (sponsored by the man who was James VI of Scotland / I of England)The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-81)The first English textbook on surgery(1597)The first modern pharmacopaedia, William Cullen (1776) The book became 'Europe's principal text on the classification and treatment of disease'his ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).The first postcards and picture postcards in the UKScientific innovationsLogarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)[56]The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir John Leslie (1766-1832)Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773-1858)Hypnotism: James Braid (1795-1860)Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds: Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)The Cloud chamber: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955The MRI body scanner: John Mallard and James Huchinson from (1974-1980)The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996Seismometer innovations thereof: James David ForbesMetaflex fabric innovations thereof: University of St. Andrews (2010) application of the first manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light in bending it around a subject. Before this such light manipulating atoms were fixed on flat hard surfaces. The team at St Andrews are the first to develop the concept to fabric.Macaulayite: Dr. Jeff Wilson of the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen.Sports innovationsScots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put] and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games and earlier 12th century ScotlandCurlingCycling, invention of the pedal-cycleGolfShinty The history of Shinty as a non-standardised sport pre-dates Scotland the Nation. The rules were standardised in the 19th century by Archibald ChisholmRugby sevens: Ned Haig and David Sanderson (1883)Medical innovationsPioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia with Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870) [83]The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884) [84]Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795-1860)Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932)Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865-1926)Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with othersPenicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)Ambulight PDT: light-emitting sticking plaster used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating non-melanoma skin cancer. Developed by Ambicare Dundee's Ninewells Hospital and St Andrews University. (2010)Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s [90]Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe - Later Queen's physician in Scotland)Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)EKG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead (1911)Household innovationsThe Refrigerator: William Cullen (1748)The Flush toilet: Alexander Cummings (1775)The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)The first distiller to triple distill Irish whiskey; John Jameson (Whisky distiller)The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732-1812)The first automated can-filing machine John West (1809-1888)The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)Keiller's marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) - The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee.The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897)The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of PaisleyLime Cordial: Peter Burnett in 1867Freeze-tolerant solar heating: Kerr MacGregor commercialised in 1999 as SolartwinBovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874Electric clock: Alexander Bain (1840)Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy) Alexander Bain (1846) In England Bain's telegraph was used on the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company to a limited extent, and in 1850 it was used in America.Weapons innovationsThe carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)The Ferguson rifle: Patrick Ferguson in 1770 or 1776The Lee bolt system as used in the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series rifles: James Paris LeeThe Ghillie suitThe Percussion Cap: invented by Scottish Presbyterian clergyman Alexander ForsythMiscellaneous innovationsBoys' Brigade (an early Boy Scouts)Bank of England devised by William PatersonBank of France devised by John LawColour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)Democracy -- the idea that the will and wishes of the people take precedence over those of the King or the government -- that is, that government exists to serve the people, not the other way around -- The Declaration of Arbroath in the year 1320
Wagner , a german, was the first to speculate the continents were once joined together and somehow drifted apart. This was i believe in 1911. Now we know the method of movement sea floor spreading. at one time this mass land mass was called pangea.
His First Trip - 1911 was released on: USA: 16 August 1911
His First Commission - 1911 was released on: USA: 10 February 1911
The First Man - 1911 was released on: USA: 12 December 1911
1911 A-1 means this was the first model of the 1911 pistol
Are you referring to plate tectonics whichI believe is more than a theory. At one time all the continents were together in a land mass called Pangea. Sea floor spreading caused them to separate forming the present continents which generally look like a jig-saw puzzle you can put together. It was Alfred Wagner, a German, who first pointed this out in 1911 though the reason s were not known at the time.
Der Rosenkavalier was first performed in 1911.
Midol was first sold in 1911.
The Indianapolis 500 was originally known as the "1911 International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race," and that first race was held on May 30, 1911 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The first winner was Ray Harroun.
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it first came out in 1911.
the first Chevrolet was made in 1911