Cayley
Americannoun
noun
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Arthur. 1821–93, British mathematician, who invented matrices
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Sir George. 1773–1857, British engineer and pioneer of aerial navigation. He constructed the first man-carrying glider (1853) and invented the caterpillar tractor
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After dumping the puck into Minnesota territory for a line change, Bannon came up with a steal and dropped it to Cayley Mercer, whose one-timer was stopped by Sidney Peters.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2017
The submarine's captain, Commander Richard Cayley, was one of the most highly-decorated submarine commanders of World War Two and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1941.
From BBC ● May 26, 2016
A new Nature paper, by Louis Moresi, Peter Betts, Meghan Miller, and Ross Cayley, explains in depth the chain of events following impact between continental fragments at subduction zones.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2014
Then the English can proudly offer George Cayley, who developed a glider that carried a 10-year-old boy in 1849 and an adult—perhaps Cayley’s coachman—in 1853.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2013
Cayley is a minor but not insignificant figure in the history of science and technology; but there is no doubt that our sense of his significance derives entirely from hindsight.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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