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unusual facts about Lynn White



Edgar Zilsel

In 1943, Zilsel was invited by Lynn White to teach physics at Mills College in California, but shortly thereafter he committed suicide in his office with an overdose of sleeping pills.

Eilmer of Malmesbury

Later scholars, such as the American historian of technology Lynn White, have attempted to estimate Eilmer's date of birth based on a quotation in William's Deeds in regard to Halley's Comet, which appeared in 1066.

Flywheel

The flywheel as a general mechanical device for equalizing the speed of rotation is, according to the American medievalist Lynn White, recorded in the De diversibus artibus (On various arts) of the German artisan Theophilus Presbyter (ca. 1070–1125) who records applying the device in several of his machines.


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