Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli begins work on fluid mechanics leading to Bernoulli's principle, driven by need to drain deeper mines

Thomas Newcomen improves steam engine design using Bernoulli's fluid pressure calculations

Bernoulli's principle applied in designing efficient water pumps for Cornish tin mines

Daniel Bernoulli applies fluid principle to explain blood circulation in Hydrodynamica

Daniel Bernoulli applies probability to smallpox inoculation - first mathematical analysis of medical intervention

James Watt patents improved steam engine using mathematical analysis - 75% efficiency increase