Category
page 1Scientific rivalry
War of Currents
an era of clash between use of Alternating and Direct Current for electric power distribution
Bone Wars
period of competitive fossil hunting during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh
mechanical equivalent of heat
amount of work done to produce a unit quantity of heat
transfermium wars
disputes between American and Soviet scientists over naming rights for newly discovered chemical elements
Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy
argument between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who had first invented calculus