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Birth Of The Modern Age - WordsEnclave

Here are some things which are discovered in 1895.


1. Diesel Engine (1895)

While it can be safely asserted that the diesel engine was, indeed, invented by Paris-born inventor Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913), it is not the case that we can attribute to him the very first "Diesel" engine.
"Diesel Engine" has for sometime been the generic term used to describe any compression ignition (CI), internal- combustion engine, that is an engine that has no carburetor or spark plugs but instead injects a fuel oil directly into the cylinder. Because the piston has compressed the air therein so  tightly, it is hot enough to ignite the fuel with no spark. as a cold engine cannot ignite the diesel fuel, glow plugs are sometime used to preheat the cylinder/mixture.


2. Film camera/Projector (1895)

It was the Lumière brothers-Auguste (1862-1954) and Louis(1864-1948)- who created the first practical film camera/projector, the Cinematograph. Despite the fact that it incorporated both projection and filming function in one (and was a printer too), it was much smaller then Edison's large, bulky Kinetograph. The machine also had the massive advantages of projecting picture that many people could view at once. it is this similarity to modern projectors that establishes it as the first proper film camera/projector.
The first public showing, on December 28, 1895, featured ten short films including the Lumière's first Worker Leaving the Lumière Factory.


3. X-Ray Photography (1895)

An x-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a very short wavelength, in the rang 10 to 0.01 nano meter. German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen (1845-1923) was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895 when he realized that these produced another form of radiation when they hit the glass of the cathode ray tube. He called them X-Ray, as "X"stands for the unknown in mathematics. X-ray was discovers how to photograph inside the bodies of living things.

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