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Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow uploaded July 2018
Stronachlachar, Loch Katerine uploaded July 2018
Montreal Bank and Post Office uploaded July 2018
Our Captain, Our Guide over Pathless Waters uploaded July 2018
Samuel John Dixon Crossing Niagara Falls Below the Great Cantilever Bridge uploaded July 2018
A Halt in the Desert, Cario, Egypt uploaded July 2018
R.E. "Straffing" Machine just off for a Scrap with the German Planes uploaded July 2018
An Intrepid Observer Meets with a Mishap and Makes a Hurried Descent uploaded July 2018
Unknown Road with Horses and Cargo uploaded July 2018
The Pride of New Orleans uploaded July 2018
Brooklyn Bridge, Near View, New York uploaded July 2018
Troops and Supplies Being Rushed from Railhead to the Firing Line uploaded July 2018
2018AB81002 uploaded July 2018
Farm Carts, Havana, Cuba uploaded July 2018
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Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, 1824 - 1907. Scientist, resting on a binnacle and holding a marine azimuth mirror
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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_... .
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Fumbling Kitty said:
hero
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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!
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tel b1 said:
is he not a landlord of apublic house
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jamica1 said:
Difficult to exaggerate how important a figure kelvin was.
The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx
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Blaine said:
Classic!!!!!
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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!
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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
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Ian Kindred said:
As seen in 2008
In the matter of the missing nose, take a look here.
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MG said:
wow, great to have the chance to see it the way it was when found out! thx!
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