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Dud Dudly begins to experiment with coke as fuel for his furnaces rather than charcoal.
Acquires patent on his son'e coke smelting from King James, though they would largely fail to produce iron at significant levels.
Derbyshire malt kiln utilizes coke.
Platt indicates the possible use of coke by suggesting that coal could be treated like charcoal.
Isaac Newton publishes his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Galileo publishes his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems published in 1632, puting forth the earth is not the center of the universe.
Later, in 1638, Galileo would publish his last book Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze) against the will of the church. This work would explore the strength of materials and the motion of objects, two
This painting by Joseph Wright is an example of romanticized science.
using a Leyden box, demonstrates that lightening is electricty
showed that electricity could move between metal filaments
a leading medical and science school is established
Established an effective coke-fired blast furnace to produce cast iron instead of using charcoal. Cheaper iron, its result, contributed to the explosion of the Industrial Revolution.
Coke would later be used by the railways in England to reduce emissions from their engines.
