Ok my hand is better so I went back experimenting a bit with the chaos in my head and Sherlock's mind now and then:)
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I was hired as a chemist and being trained for the job by making fantasy slimes. Right before I woke up I was going to be taught how to make something called "black flame meth".
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On March 27th 1923, Sir James Dewar, the inventor of the vacuum flask, died.
James Dewar held early appointments at the University of Edinburgh, in 1875 he became Jacksonian professor at the University of Cambridge, and at the age of just 34 was appointed Fullerian professor at the Royal Institution (RI). From all accounts, his experimental prowess rivalled that of Michael Faraday but is only really known nowadays as the inventor of the vacuum flask, or thermos as it became known.
Dewar is said to have been a "ruthless" chemist, we here a lot about scientist who deal in this theory or that theory, this was not Dewar, he dealt in facts, and didn't suffer fools, I wont pretend to know the meaning of his work and admit to copying about how his early work concerned organic chemistry (suggesting a possible structure for benzene, still called ‘Dewar benzene’), atomic spectroscopy and other topics. Cryogenics research was his main focus at the Royal Institute, particularly important was his invention of the Dewar silvered vacuum flask and the liquefaction of gases culminating with that of hydrogen in 1898.
Dewar was variously described as ‘an incarnate devil’ and ‘of quarrelsome disposition and ungovernable temper’, to me that just sounds like any other Scotsman you will meet in a pub! I think from what I can fathom he rubbed people up the wrong way, and it is quite evident that the contemporary scientists that he work with in the UK didn't like him, his work was more appreciated by those who knew him from afar, the ones that didn't have to rub shoulders with him, the evidence of this you can find in the number of Nobel prizes he was nominated for, nine in total, although he won none it is still an impressive number, oh and none of these nominations came from fellow Brits, says it all, don't you think?
Apart from the flask, Dewars other main contribution to science was the discovery of cordite, made in conjunction with Sir Frederick Abel. What he lacked in charm with his colleagues he is said to have exuded it in his lectures and presentations. The following excerpt is from a 1911 article about the man.......
"Sir James Dewar's delivery in public is most excellent, and a certain charm is added to his well-modulated voice by a touch of the Scotch accent which he still retains. The preparation of his lectures and reports shows great care and precise method. Indeed, were it not for this, and his propensity for a happy co-ordination of facts, figures, and deductions, the forceful, logical, convincing presentation with which he always appears to impress his hearers, would be impossible. As can be easily realized, it is not an easy task, when treating of the very abstruse subjects he has dealt with, to adapt to the comprehension of the masses the results of explorations made in hitherto unknown paths such as we have called to attention.
His success has been so marked, so extraordinary, of such benefit to mankind, that we must all wish many more days may be spared him to enhance, as he surely will, the admirable work he has already accomplished, leading him to disclose many more of the valuable secrets that Nature guards so jealously."
He died in London on this day 1923.
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