Revolution, American

Although unknown at the time, some of the earliest uses of fire represented a binary signaling system that was even used during the American Revolution. On the evening of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren sent for Paul Revere and instructed him to ride from... 

A few decades later this Middle Forge, as it was called, entered the ordnance picture. With the coming of the American Revolution, when the Continental Army fought its way across New Jersey, it was used to produce solid cannon... 

It should be noted at the outset that this identity schema for scientific disciplines runs the risk of superficially obscuring the differences among scientific communities and Seventh-Day Adventists, Daughters of the American Revolution, or Freudian analysts. In this, the construction of identity may look like an example of the constructivist sociology of science. However, the identity schema is capable of providing important demarcation criteria for science, especially in focusing on the problems scientists choose to study and the values by which scientists organize their solutions. 

Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island, of the Liberty Bell and the Statue of Liberty, of the New England wilderness [ ] and the slums of modern industrial cities, of the American Revolution and the industrial revolution.49... 

Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York Vintage Books, 1991), pp. 104-105. 

Information on secret codes, invisible ink, and captured letters from the American Revolution. http //www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-methods.html... 

Compare the goals and achievements of the French Revolution with those of the American Revolution. 

Names of historical events Civil War, Korean War, American Revolution... 

The Institute is named for Cato s Letters, libertarian pamphlets that were widely read in the American Colonies in the early 18th century and played a major role in laying the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. 

Conservative sentiment in England was also seriously disturbed, at this time, by the success of the American Revolution, and still more by the development of democratic spirit and the antichurch sentiment excited by the rise and progress of the French Revolution. As Priestley had favored the cause of the American colonists, so he was sympathetic with the ideals which dominated the rise and earlier development of the French revolutionary movement. The government party in England was aroused against Priestley, especially by his caustic reply to Edmund Burke s attack on the French Revolution in 1790. As Burke had been an outspoken advocate of the cause of the American colonists before the American Revolution, Priestley,... 

Another hundred years went by. Then, at the time of the American Revolution, the day finally dawned for modem chemistry. 

He was a strong religious and political leader and was persecuted for his support of the American Revolution. He came to America in 1794 and spent his last years experimenting in his laboratory. His research in America resulted in the discovery of carbon monoxide (1799). 

Ten elements have been known since the beginning of recorded history antimony (Sb), carbon (C), copper (Cu), gold (Au), iron (Fe), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), silver (Ag), sulfur (S), and tin (Sn). The first "new" element to be found in several thousand years was arsenic (As), discovered in about 1250. In fact, only 24 elements were known at the time of the American Revolution, in 1776. 

In theory, the existence within our secular society of a group that does not accept conventional values is consistent with our political vision. But one of the great problems of the United States, legally and politically, is that we have never quite had the courage of our convictions. The Republic is founded on the marvelously sane principle that a human community can exist and prosper only on a basis of mutual trust. Metaphysically, the American Revolution was a rejection of the dogma of Original Sin, which is the notion that because you cannot... 

After the American Revolution, American settlers continued to grow hemp of excellent quality in the land now known as Kentucky. Hemp fiber continued to be a cash crop, the source of rope that rigged many of the world s sailing ships, and the rugged fabric that covered settlers wagons as they made their way westward. Canvas, another hemp product, was widely used for sails in the shipping industry. A remarkably durable cloth, it is one of the few that seawater does not rot or mildew. (The word canvas is rooted in cannabis. )... 

In a very direct sense, the Founding Fathers of the United States fought the American Revolution against the British Crown s opium policy. 

The Rio Tinto Zinc Company was founded in 1873 by James Sutherland Matheson s nephew Hugh Matheson — taking the lineage of that firm all the way back to the days of George III and the American Revolution through then-Prime Minister Spencer... 

A long trail of indictments, fines and press stories leads to one of the most dramatic case histories of Dope, Incorporated, and to Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. Under the direction of old Philadelphia Quaker families, whose roots in the opium traffic go back to the first years after the American Revolution, and with the cooperation of one of Britain s oldest opium-running families, the Phiadelphia dope network can be charted from the wholesale production of illicit drags down to the gutter. 

During the century and a half that preceded the American Revolution, Cannabis production for textiles throughout New England was subsidized. By 1762, Virginia farmers were penalized if they didn t grow it. It has been estimated that about half of the clothes worn at the time of the American Revolution were made of hemp. 

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