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In 1892 Sir James Dewar invented a container that could keep liquids hot or cold ( the thermos ) which led three men – Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth – to construct a large thermal flask for either liquid hydrogen and oxygen or for solid fuel combustion for use in rocket propulsion, applying the thermal flask principle to keep rocket fuel cold and successfully using it for the V-2 rocket and the Saturn V rocket that put man on the moon.
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* Sir George Biddell Airy 1801 – 1892, Cambridge & London
To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.
* December 10 – Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet, English tank and vehicle designer ( b. 1892 )
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS ( 13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973 ) is considered by many to be the " inventor of radar ".
* Sir Provo Wallis ( 1791 – 1892 ) was the last Royal Navy officer.
At the celebration of the centenary of gas lighting in 1892, a bust of Murdoch was unveiled by Lord Kelvin in the Wallace Monument, Stirling, and there is also a bust of him by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey at St. Mary's Church.
* Sir Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, 1st Baronet ( 1892 – 1973 ), of the Ackroyd Baronetcy of Dewsbury and Lord Mayor of London ( 1955 – 56 )
* two studies by Sir J. FitzJames Stephen in the second volume of his Horae Sabbaticae ( London, 1892 ).
Tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton came to Southgate from Muswell Hill in 1892, and lived in a house called Osidge until his death in 1931.
Invented by Sir James Dewar in 1892, the vacuum flask consists of two flasks, placed one within the other and joined at the neck.
The vacuum flask was invented by Scottish physicist and chemist Sir James Dewar in 1892 and is sometimes referred to as a Dewar flask or Dewar bottle after its inventor.
As a result of a motion brought forward by Sir Edward Birkbeck, a Royal Commission was established to look at the issue of ' electrical communication ' and gave its first Report in 1892 ; the East Goodwin lightvessel was used during one of Guglielmo Marconi's early experiments in radio transmission in 1896.
In 1888, Sir Morell Mackenzie ( 1837 – 1892 ) published a book discussing the indications for tracheotomy.
William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's " The Adventure of the Speckled Band " ( 1892 ), " The Adventure of the Empty House " ( 1903 ) and " The Problem of Thor Bridge " ( 1922 )
* Sir William Bowman ( 1816 – 1892 ), surgeon, was born in Nantwich.
Sir Arthur William Coles ( 7 August 1892 – 14 June 1982 ) was a prominent Australian businessman and philanthropist.
* Sir Alexander Campbell ( Canadian senator ) ( 1822 – 1892 ), legislator, minister, Lieutenant Governor, and Senator
* General Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge, 1890 – 1892
* General Sir Frederick Stephenson, 1892 – 1911
Sir George Biddell Airy PRS KCB (; 27 July 1801 – 2 January 1892 ) was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
The Muztagh Pass was crossed in 1887 by the expedition of Colonel Francis Younghusband and the valleys above the Hunza River were explored by General Sir George K. Cockerill in 1892.
When Sir William Gregory died in March 1892, Lady Gregory went into mourning and returned to Coole Park where she edited her husband's autobiography, which she published in 1894.
Sir Adams George Archibald, KCMG, PC ( May 3, 1814 – December 14, 1892 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician, and a father of Confederation.
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Six editions of James Dwight Dana's System appeared between 1837 and 1892.
* 1892 – James Forrestal, American politician, Secretary of the Navy ( d. 1949 )
Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).
* 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
In 1892, James E. Henry bought approximately of virgin timber and established a logging enterprise at what is today the center of Lincoln.
* 1892 – James Petrillo, American president of the musicians union ( d. 1984 )
* 1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist, co-discoverer of insulin ( d. 1965 )
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* 1992 – James Van Fleet, American general ( b. 1892 )
James wrote a lot of short stories himself, including " The Real Thing " ( 1892 ), " Maud-Evelyn " and The Beast in the Jungle ( 1903 ).
James Thorne Smith, Jr. ( March 27, 1892 – June 21, 1934 ) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.
** James Forrestal, U. S. Secretary of Navy and Defense ( suicide ) ( b. 1892 )
** U. S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
* September 1 – James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher ( d. 1892 )
* James W. Denver ( 1817 – 1892 ), American 19th century politician, for whom the Colorado capital is named
Colonel James (' Jim ') Herbert Porter ( b. 1892, Burton upon Trent ), a third generation brewer at Newcastle Breweries, in 1927.
Although Thomas C. Platt and other disaffected party leaders mounted a dump-Harrison movement coalescing around veteran candidate James G. Blaine of Maine, the president's forces had the nomination locked up by the time delegates met in Minneapolis on June 7-10, 1892.
* James Farrow ( 1827 – 1892 ), 19th century politician
The club was founded in 1892, by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James ' Park, since.
Newcastle West End were eventually dissolved, and a number of their players and backroom staff joined Newcastle East End, effectively merging the two clubs, with Newcastle East End taking over the lease on St James ' Park in May 1892.
* 1892 – James Dewar invents the vacuum-insulated, silver-plated glass Dewar flask
The Democratic Party won El Paso County four additional times prior, and the Populist Party won in 1892, with General James B. Weaver.
There are also those who point to Anton Chekov's short stories and plays and Knut Hamsun's Hunger ( 1890 ), and Mysteries ( 1892 ) as offering glimpses of the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative technique at the end of the nineteenth-century .< ref > James Wood.
Kellyville was named for James E. Kelly, who established a trading post here about 1892 and opened a post office on November 27, 1893.
It was financed in part by James J. Hill ( 1838 – 1916 ), of the Great Northern Railway ( which arrived in Wenatchee in 1892 ).
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