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Mach is born
Born in Moravia and later moved to farm in Untersiebenbrunn, Lower Austria. -
Supporting Doppler
Christian Doppler creates the Doppler theory. Stating that sound changes frequency if the source is moved closer or away from the observer. 2 physicist Petzval and Angstrom agree this idea is incorrect. Mach creates a device to prove the Doppler theory is correct. -
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Mach goes to the university of Vienna
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Mach gains an interest in the medical world
Mach gets an iuntrest in Phyiology. He then enrolls into Joannes Muller's Medical facility and takes 22 hours of classes. Mach eventually ends up teaching a class's of medical students physics. Publishes his first text book and article on psychophysics. -
Mach creates Mach bands
Mach publishes "On the effect of the spatial distribution of the light stimulus on the retina" essentially explaining what happens when you see an optical illusion or why see them.
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Mach and his son take the first picture
Mach and his son Ludwig Capture the first picture of a bullet in supersonic flight. IN the process Mach helped create highs speed photographic techniques and the biggest one the Mach number was created. The ratio of the speed of the object to the speed of sound. His work shaped the way aerodynamics work today. -
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Mach holds a Chair in the History and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences at Vienna
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Mach has a stroke
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Mach retires
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Mach dies
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Citations
Bird, A. (2018, Oct 31). Thomas Kuhn. Retrieved October 21, 2020, from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Ernst Mach.Retrieved October 23, 2020, from https:/www.britannica.com/biography/Ernst-Mach Research in Supersonic Flight and the Breaking of the Sound Barrier.Retrieved Oct 23, 2020, from https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html Research in Supersonic Flight and the Breaking of the Sound Barrier.Retrieved Oct 23, 2020, from https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html
