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King's Observatory (2,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The King's Observatory (called for many years the Kew Observatory) is a Grade I listed building in Richmond, London. Now a private dwelling, it formerly

Francis Ronalds (2,392 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a popular exhibition at that time.[page needed] Ronalds set up the Kew Observatory for the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1842

Elizabeth Martha Beckley (287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

based at Kew Observatory, who developed the Beckley rain gauge and the Robinson-Beckley anemometer with Thomas Romney Robinson. Beckley worked at Kew Observatory

Stephen Peter Rigaud (560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stephen (also known as James Stephen) Rigaud, was Observer at the Kew Observatory. The painter John Francis Rigaud, who painted a portrait of Rigaud

P.A. Sheppard (430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by polar molecules. In 1929, he joined the Meteorological Office at Kew Observatory, where he carried out studies on the atmospheric electrical balance

Atmospheric electricity (3,419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his research in the 1840s as the inaugural Honorary Director of the Kew Observatory, where the first extended and comprehensive dataset of electrical and

Robert Stewart Whipple (428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

After attending King's College School, Whipple began his career at the Kew Observatory as an assistant, before leaving to become assistant manager at instrument

Charles Frodsham (1,093 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the highest score ever achieved by an English watch tested at the Kew Observatory. Such watches were inscribed with the letters AD. Fmsz. This cryptogram

Barograph (1,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at uniform intervals. Francis Ronalds, the Honorary Director of the Kew Observatory, created the first successful barograph utilising photography in 1845

Charles Brooke (surgeon) (990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

little earlier by Francis Ronalds, inaugural Honorary Director at the Kew Observatory, was also deployed to Toronto as well as numerous other observatories

Transit of Venus (4,152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1098/rstl.1764.0030. McLaughlin, Stewart (1992). "The Early History of Kew Observatory". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society.

National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) (3,878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

government laboratories in the United Kingdom. In the 19th century, the Kew Observatory was run by self-funded devotees of science. In the early 1850s, the

Ohm (2,901 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

British Association (B.A.) "ohm" 1863 1.000 Standard coils deposited at Kew Observatory in 1863 Digney, Breguet, Swiss 9.266–10.420 Iron wire 1 km long and

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The transit is viewed by King George III of Great Britain, at the Kew Observatory. June 7 – Frontiersman Daniel Boone first begins to explore modern-day

James Stephen Rigaud (206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

John Francis Rigaud in 1778 – they are posed in a park landscape with Kew Observatory in the background and although the painting is sometimes described

Weather forecasting (7,726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

parameters using photography were supplied to the observing stations from Kew Observatory – these cameras had been invented by Francis Ronalds in 1845 and his

List of proposed etymologies of OK (911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

year) to brand instruments which had been tested and approved at the Kew Observatory. Walker, Malcolm (November 14, 2011). History of the Meteorological

William Colbeck (sea captain) (884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Royal Navy reserve commission in 1898. In that year he studied at Kew Observatory making a special feature of magnetism and it was in the capacity of

William Grylls Adams (1,057 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

One of is duties for the Royal Society was being a member of the Kew observatory committee. Adams was also active at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

Kite (5,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ronalds and William Radcliffe Birt described a very stable kite at Kew Observatory as early as 1847 that was trialled for the purpose of supporting self-registering

Richard Strachey (1,421 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1873 he was on the committee of the Royal Society for managing the Kew observatory. The royal medal of the society was bestowed upon him in 1897 for his

James Stagg (1,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

British Meteorological Office and he was appointed superintendent of Kew Observatory in 1939. In the winter of 1932/33 he led the British Polar Expedition

Superposed epoch analysis (341 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Chree-Some phenomena of sunspots and of terrestrial magnetism at Kew observatory-July 1913 Y.P. Singh, Badruddin-Statistical considerations in superposed

1860 Oxford evolution debate (3,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unremarkable. Balfour Stewart, a prominent scientist and director of the Kew Observatory, wrote afterward that, "I think the Bishop had the best of it." Joseph

Lord Kelvin (10,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

electrometer was used for measuring the atmospheric electric field at Kew Observatory and Eskdalemuir Observatory for many years, and one was still in use

Kite applications (4,039 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ronalds and William Radcliffe Birt described a very stable kite at Kew Observatory as early as 1847 that was trialled for the purpose of supporting self-registering

List of people from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (4,629 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Strickland, pp. 303, 308. Robert Henry Scott (1886). "History of the Kew Observatory" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society. 39. Retrieved 11 October

List of fellows of the Royal Society W, X, Y, Z (119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Physician John Welsh 1857-06-11 27 September 1824 – 11 May 1859 Supt. of Kew Observatory Robert Welsted 1718-03-13 1671 – 1 February 1735 Physician Thomas Francis

1760s (22,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The transit is viewed by King George III of Great Britain, at the Kew Observatory. June 7 – Frontiersman Daniel Boone first begins to explore modern-day

Timeline of meteorology (8,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

B.F. (June 2016). "Sir Francis Ronalds and the Early Years of the Kew Observatory". Weather. 71 (6): 131–134. Bibcode:2016Wthr...71..131R. doi:10.1002/wea

Kite types (11,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in fact, the same kite. Ed Grauel opines that the Birt kite at the Kew Observatory preempted the Perrins kite; he noted that the same kite later became

1965 New Year Honours (21,027 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Boston, Lincolnshire.) Harold Dean Henley, Technical Class Grade III, Kew Observatory, Ministry of Defence (Air Force). (Twickenham, Middlesex.) Thomas Edmund

Wales & McCulloch (639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

split seconds pocket watch with Karrusel escapement, certified at the Kew Observatory Numbered 3483, London Hallmark for 1897". www.bonhams.com. Ord-Hume