The ultrasonic training instruments are easy to use. But there’s a dark history behind their inventor—and their initial ...

How 19th Century Englishman's theory led to murder of MILLIONS: Francis Galton's eugenics proved popular with Churchill… before his genetic improvement ideas led to the WWII Holocaust and 70,000 ...

I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ‘Law of Frequency of Error’,” the British polymath Francis Galton wrote in 1889.

THE LIFE STORY OF A SCIENTIST; Francis Galton the Anthropometrist Writes Some Highly Interesting Memories of a Long and Honorable Career. Share full article Oct. 16, 1909 ...

Francis Galton: You see, concealed in the shaft of this walking stick is what has now become known as a Galton's whistle, currently calibrated at 12,339 cycles per second, ...

The first systematic studies of whether human behaviors are hereditary were conducted over 100 years ago by Sir Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin.

In 1876, an English scientist named Francis Galton introduced a whistle for testing the upper limits of audible sound in different persons. Max Thomas Edelmann, a physicist and instrument maker in ...

A modern twist on a classic concept. A Galton board, named after British mathematician Sir Francis Galton, is a device that demonstrates statistical principles using a triangular array of pegs.

Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we are has dominated the human sciences.