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Newall knew about Cooke thanks to his friend and fellow amateur astronomer Hugh Lee Pattinson, who had bought a 18 centimetres (7.1 in) refractor from Cooke in 1851. [2] Before starting the construction, Cooke had told Newall that the telescope would be completed in less than 12 months but it was actually completed 6 years later in 1869, two ...
On receipt of Gordon's letter, Newall designed a wire rope machine, consisting of four strands and four wires to a strand. On Gordon's return to the UK in 1839, he formed a partnership with Robert and Charles Liddell, registering R. S. Newall and Company in Dundee. On 17 August 1840, Newall took out a patent for "certain improvements in wire ...
Hugh Frank Newall, FRS FRAS [1] (21 June 1857 – 22 February 1944) was a British astrophysicist. He was Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at Cambridge. He was the son of Robert Stirling Newall FRS and his wife Mary, daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson , FRS.
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Ex-Biden officials aren’t just worried about the impact of layoffs for tax filing season: They’re also expressing concern about reports that staff with Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...
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