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Re: Verne's Chemist

From: Mark Eckell <mark_eckell~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:05:46 +0000
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il, svasbinder~at~malone.edu

I'm certainly no expert on this, buth the spelling of the name "broek"
appears to be Dutch. Also, I'm wondering if the entire name is a variation
of "Leyden", the Dutch scientist who devised the "Leyden" jars?






>From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
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>To: "Vasbinder, Sam" <svasbinder~at~malone.edu>
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>Hello Sam,
>
>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Vasbinder, Sam wrote:
>
> > I was just going over your wonderful site. Thanks for allt of this. I
>have
> > been nuts about Verne since seventh grade. I am looking for any
>information
> > on the "Austrian Chemist" Leniebroek who invented the steel balls used
>as
> > missiles in the airguns of the Nautilus. Any ideas of where I might find
> > this guy? Again, I enjoyed the site immensely. Sam
>
>The only results of a Google search for Leniebroek were online versions of
>20,000 leagues. I am sure that Verne did not invent this chemist, so he
>must have read about the electric bullets in some popular-scientific
>magazine. He probably made a typo when copying the name. 'Leniebroek'
>doesn't sound very German. Perhaps the real name is Leniebrock, or even
>Leibrock (which is an existing name)?
>
>I cc this reply to the JV forum. Perhaps one of its members has any clue
>of who 'Leniebroek' was.
>
>Best regards,
>Garmt.


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