{"id":4801,"date":"2015-01-22T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2015-01-22T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T08:12:18","slug":"plaque-for-sir-william-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2015\/01\/22\/plaque-for-sir-william-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaque for Sir William Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/80420000\/jpg\/_80420580_80419595.jpg\" alt=\"Grove\" width=\"250\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">A plaque will be placed  in Swansea&#8217;s Grove Place to commemorate the 19th Century scientist Sir William Grove.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sir William, was the founder of the Swansea Literary and Philosophical Society, and managed to combine a legal career with several important scientific achievements. In particular he anticipated the conservation of energy and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology. He was the first to produce electrical energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen in 1842, a technology that went on to supply water and electricity for space missions.<\/p>\n<p>Just another example of a Welsh person having done great things for the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Robert_Grove\" title=\"Grove\" target=\"_blank\">William Robert Grove<\/a>, Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-south-west-wales-30920023\" title=\"Blue plaque for Swansea scientist Sir William Grove\" target=\"_blank\">Blue plaque for Swansea scientist Sir William Grove<\/a>, BBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plaque will be placed in Swansea&#8217;s Grove Place to commemorate the 19th Century scientist Sir William Grove. Sir William, was the founder of the Swansea Literary and Philosophical Society, and managed to combine a legal career with several important scientific achievements. In particular he anticipated the conservation of energy and was a pioneer of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2015\/01\/22\/plaque-for-sir-william-grove\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plaque for Sir William Grove<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}