Egbert van der Poel: A View of Delft after the Explosion of 1654

The Delft Explosion is the principal reason why Delft University of Technology maintains explosion science as a key topic within its research portfolio and graduate skill-set.

* 1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.

* October 12 – The Delft Explosion, in the arsenal, devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100, among whom is Carel Fabritius ( 32 ), the most promising student of Rembrandt.

Young Man in a Fur Cap, self-portrait of Carel Fabritius, not long before his death in the Delft Explosion.

* October 12 – The Delft Explosion destroys the city of Delft, killing painter Carel Fabritius and destroying his home, studio and most of his paintings: only five are known to exist.

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He also found organisms in water from the canal next to his home in Delft.

Delft is primarily known for its typically Dutch town centre ( with canals ); also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery ( Delftware ), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

Inter IKEA Systems B. V. in Delft, also in the Netherlands, owns the IKEA concept and trademark, and there is a franchising agreement with every IKEA store in the world.

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek ( in Dutch also Anthonie, Antoni, or Theunis, in English, Antony or Anton ;, ; October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723 ) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands.

The success which followed his labors not only in the city of Utrecht, but also in Zwolle, Deventer, Kampen, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Gouda, Leiden, Delft, Zutphen and elsewhere, was immense ; according to Thomas à Kempis the people left their business and their meals to hear his sermons, so that the churches could not hold the crowds that flocked together wherever he came.

Declared an outlaw by the Spanish king in 1580, he was assassinated by Balthasar Gérard ( also written as " Gerardts ") in Delft four years later.

The Delft potters also made tiles in vast numbers ( estimated at eight hundred million ) over a period of two hundred years ; many Dutch houses still have tiles that were fixed in the 17th and 18th centuries.

It was planned as a multi-purpose building, however, and also contains an orangery, a saloon and a bathroom which retains original Delft tiles.

The UT collaborates with Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology under the umbrella of the 3TU. Federation, and is also a partner in the European Consortium of Innovative Universities ( ECIU ).

Delft University of Technology ( ), also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands.

TU Delft also offers Professional Doctorate in Engineering.

International professional student organizations are also present at TU Delft, including European Association of Aerospace Students.

It is part of the Haaglanden conurbation centred around The Hague, but it is also close to Delft and Rotterdam.

The previous day the damaged Hollandia had been sent home together with the Gelderland, Delft, Reiger, Asperen and Beschermer to guard the three captured English vessels ; now also the damaged Pacificatie, Vrijheid, Provincie Utrecht and Calantsoog had to return and only a handful of the rear squadron remained.

This is partly because it is a Royal City, used not only for the inauguration of kings, but also for royal weddings ( note though that royal burials take place in Delft ), and also because of its dominant position in Dutch history.

Researchers from Mediamatica Department, Delft University of Technology in collaboration with Faculty of Psychology, University of Amsterdam has also done several research projects on virtual reality exposure therapy ( VRET ).

The supporters of a continuous green area were lucky that the municipality of Midden-Delfland became a reality: the cities of Delft, Vlaardingen and Schiedam wanted to build new houses here, and the Westland gardeners also wanted to expand.

In 1917 Proof Garden for Technical Plantation () was established by Gerrit van Iterson, which today is known as Botanical Garden of TU Delft.

For example, a living street ( sometimes known as Home zones or by the Dutch word woonerf, as the concept originated in the Netherlands ) towards the end of the 1960s, initially in Delft, is a street in which the needs of car drivers are secondary to the needs of users of the street as a whole ; traffic calming principles are integrated into their design.

At fifteen Ruysch was apprenticed to Willem van Aelst, a prominent Delft painter, known for his flower paintings.

KSV (, ) Sanctus Virgilius ( also known as Virgiel ) is the largest student fraternity / sorority in Delft.

Because of its history, the historical inner city of The Hague differs in various respects from the nearby smaller cities of Leiden and Delft.

Wessel van Diepen ( 12 November 1966, Delft, The Netherlands ), was a Dutch radio host for Radio 538 ( until October 2006 ) and is the most successful dance-pop music producer in Dutch history.

Later on, Egbert van der Poel painted several pictures of Delft showing the devastation.

Delft University of Technology is developing a kite power technology demonstrator system based on a 25 m² kite generating 20 kW mechanical traction power.

In 2008, the Delft University of Technology applied for a patent on the molybdenum-98-based production of molybdenum-99

In April 2012 a multinational team of researchers from the University of Southern California, Delft University of Technology, the Iowa State University of Science and Technology, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, constructed a two-qubit quantum computer on a crystal of diamond doped with some manner of impurity, that can easily be scaled up in size and functionality at room temperature.

* ( VEW04 ) " Using a Decompiler for Real-World Source Recovery ", M. Van Emmerik and T. Waddington, the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, 9 – 12 November 2004.

Many of the families are now squatting on Symphony Way, a main road in the township of Delft.

Other places nearby are Maassluis to the west, Schipluiden and Delft to the north, and Spijkenisse in the south-west, on the other side of the Nieuwe Waterweg.

He died at the age of 90, on August 26, 1723 and was buried four days later in the Oude Kerk ( Delft ).

Tromp, a " sea hero ", was immensely popular with the common people, a sentiment expressed by the greatest of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel in a famous poem describing his marble grave monument in Delft showing the admiral on his moment of death with a burning British fleet on the foreground:

His body was moved to the Dutch Royal Family crypt in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft on 29 April 1958.

The Royal Hearse with the remains of the late Princess Juliana on its way to the Nieuwe Kerk ( Delft ) | Nieuwe Kerk in Delft

She was embalmed ( unlike her mother, who chose not to be ) and on 30 March 2004 interred beside her mother, Wilhelmina, in the royal vaults under the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft.

Today, Delfts Blauw ( Delft Blue ) is the brand name hand painted on the bottom of ceramic pieces identifying them as authentic and collectible.

Although most Delft Blue borrows from the tin-glaze tradition, it is nearly all decorated in underglaze blue on a white clay body and very little uses tin glaze, a more expensive product.

Delft University of Technology was founded on January 8, 1842 by King William II of the Netherlands as Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers, for serving both nation and industry, and of apprentices for trade.

Yet another Act, passed on May 22, 1905, changed the name of the school to Technische College ( Institute ) of Delft (), emphasizing the academic quality of the education.

Most of the university buildings during that time were located within Delft city center, with some of the buildings set on the side of the river Schie, in the Wippolder district.

New university neighborhood called Mekelpark ( its name commemorating TH Delft professor and WW II resistance fighter, Jan Mekel, who was executed by the Nazis on May 2, 1942 in Sachsenhausen ) was opened on July 5, 2009.

Full list of research schools is available on TU Delft website.

The full list of research schools affiliated with TU Delft is available on TU Delft website, see for example TRAIL Research School.