1. Olivia Newton John — 2023-04-06 17:15:33

   …ain == After struggling for several years she broke through with a Bob Dylan song **If Not For You** in 1971. In 1974, Newton-John represented the United Kingdom in the //Eurovision Song Contest// with the song "**Long Live Love**". Newton-John…
   …heights when she starred in the film musical **Grease** in 1978. She played the lead role of Sandy. {{Image url="GreaseNewton-John.jpg" class="left" title="Grease Newton John" width="" }}…

2. Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21

   …: == Leviathan of Parsonstown == {{Image url="RosseTelescope.jpg" class="right" title="Rosse Telescope" width="" }} The Newtonian principle was taken to extreme proportions in 1845 with the construction of the **Leviathan of Parsonstown** otherwi…

3. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32

   …sh of St. Sepulchre [[London]], [[England]]. ::c:: == Working again == Many years later in 1874 a man named **William Newton Wilson** found the patent of Thomas’s machine. The original drawings were so complete he was able to rebuild it, and …
   …ecome millionaires from patents which, if Saint's machine had been discovered earlier, would never have been approved. Newton Wilson was one who had suffered at the hands of Singer's lawyers years earlier. It was too late for him to claim recomp…

4. Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13

   … According to the well-known story, it was on seeing an apple fall in his orchard at some time during 1665 or 1666 that Newton conceived that the same force that acted on the apple also governed the motion of the Moon and planets. {{Image url="Ap…
   …ple_falling.gif" class="right" }} When he saw the apple fall, Newton began to think about a specific kind of motion—gravity. Newton understood that gravity was the force of attraction be…
   …lled objects toward it. That is why the apple fell down instead of up, and why people don’t float in the air. Isaac Newton explained the workings of the universe through mathematics. He formulated laws of motion and gravitation. These laws ar…
   … pull equally in the opposite direction. Or, '''Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.''' == Cat Flap == Newton is also credited with inventing the first known cat flap. While he was in his attic trying to conduct light experiments…

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