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The National Gallery and Royal Institution (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh by National Galleries of Scotland Commons
The National Gallery and Royal Institution (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh William Donaldson Clark, about 1858

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Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

  • Atget's Apprentice said:
    It looked much better back then.

Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, 1824 - 1907. Scientist, resting on a binnacle and holding a marine azimuth mirror

  • BobMeade said:
    Looks like this instrument is based upon Lord Kelvin's work and patents. At the Persistent URL the National Galleries of Scotland has this note : "He was also the partner of a Glasgow firm that made measuring instruments from his own patents" And here is some of his published work on such instruments: zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/terrestrial_magnetism_and_the_... .
  • Fumbling Kitty said:
    hero
  • jamica1 said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • tel b1 said:
    is he not a landlord of apublic house
  • jamica1 said:
    Difficult to exaggerate how important a figure kelvin was.

The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx

  • 19 older comments, and then…
  • Blaine said:
    Classic!!!!!
  • BigBean said:
    Hi, this photo has been mentioned in a discussion thread in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!
  • Vo0Ds said:
    I think i'm right in saying that this was before the sphinx was excavated a bit (because we can't see its legs) and before it was damaged some more by troops using it as target practice in the war
  • Ian Kindred said:
    As seen in 2008

    The Sphinx at Ghiza

    In the matter of the missing nose, take a look here.

    home.xnet.com/~warinner/sphinx.html
  • MG said:
    wow, great to have the chance to see it the way it was when found out! thx!

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