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International Polar Commission meets in St Petersburg "for the purpose of establishing the best points of observation" for the first "International Polar Year".

Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary of rocket propulsion in Practical Mechanics magazine. In this issues he talks about German Walther rocket planes.

... = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Garrett Putnam Serviss header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = March 24th 1851 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = Sharon Springs New York, USA label5 = Date of Death data5 ... '', ''The Moon Metal''. Early Life Garrett Serviss was a well known astronomer, born March 24th 1851 in Sharon Springs New York he graduated from Cornell University in 1872. He then turned ...

... magnetic observations and it was almost exactly at this time that members of that same august body proposed building a similar observatory in Toronto, Canada. The Glasgow observatory began construction in ... work. It is not known if Leitch attended the first Great Exhibition in London in 1851. It seems likely since it was the most ambitious event of the era and attracted ... an assortment of respectable members of the Church of Scotland, not least, Norman Macleod. In August of 1859 Morris was in Edinburgh and met with Leitch, who evidently wasn't sure ...

... Lab-Oratory reproduced crystallotype print from daguerrotype of moon made by John A. Whipple in 1851. Accompanying article included description by Whipple of difficulties in obtaining photo. Whipple account and daguerrotype ...

... Shuttle Enterprise , the first orbiter built, was named for a vessel exploring the Arctic from 1851 to 1854, as well as for the flagship in television's Star Trek ; as the ...

... from the Real, the Ideal. For example, the great painter J.M.W. Turner 1775 - 1851 shows an idealized version of a ship in a skyscape in his work "The Fighting ...

... first to seriously suggest their use there (although Elbert Perce in his Gulliver Joi of 1851 has precedence). Verne was aware of many of the special needs of space travelers and ...

... on Geology and Astronomy - Woodhouse, Robert Astronomy - Philosophical Magazine - Astronomical Notices - Mathematical Journal - Great Exhibition 1851 - Astronomical Society of London monthly notices - Nautical Almanac for 1860 - Projection of the Spheres - Letters ...

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