Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



Ascanio Sobrero

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



Sulla preparazione dei legnami col bitume residuo della raffinazione del petrolio, 1868

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



Chemical structure of nitroglycerin

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



3D ball and stick model of nitroglycerin

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



The nitroglycerin molecule with to Van der Waals spheres

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



Nitroglycerin, tablets for sublingual administration

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



Sobrerol, a drug

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



Plaque of Ascanio Sobrero in via Po in Turin

Casale Monferrato, Italy, 12 October 1812
Turin, Italy, 26 May 1888
chemist

Ascanio Sobrero



Monument to Ascanio Sobrero in Valentino Park, Turin

Cincinnatus, New York, October 12, 1860
Brooklyn, June 16, 1930
inventor and entrepreneur

Elmer Ambrose Sperry



Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Cincinnatus, New York, October 12, 1860
Brooklyn, June 16, 1930
inventor and entrepreneur

Elmer Ambrose Sperry



Sperry's stabilizing gyroscope installed in the USS Henderson

Cincinnatus, New York, October 12, 1860
Brooklyn, June 16, 1930
inventor and entrepreneur

Elmer Ambrose Sperry



Aircraft gyrocompass built by Sperry

Cincinnatus, New York, October 12, 1860
Brooklyn, June 16, 1930
inventor and entrepreneur

Elmer Ambrose Sperry



Section of the Anschütz-Kaempfe gyrocompass

Cincinnatus, New York, October 12, 1860
Brooklyn, June 16, 1930
inventor and entrepreneur

Elmer Ambrose Sperry



A gyroscope

Cincinnatus, New York, October 12, 1860
Brooklyn, June 16, 1930
inventor and entrepreneur

Elmer Ambrose Sperry



A gyroscope in operation, showing the freedom of rotation in all three axes. The rotor will maintain its spin axis direction regardless of the orientation of the outer frame

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