Invented by Sir Charles Parsons.
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Parsons Library
1854 - 1931 This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and ...
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John Dolland
Optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. The business, founded in 1750, became Dollond & Aitchison in 1927, and was su...
1 memorial
Edward Troughton
Instrument maker notable for making telescopes and other astronomical instruments. Source: Wikipedia.
1 memorial
Nathaniel Bliss
Astronomer. The fourth Astronomer Royal 1762-64. Studied at Oxford University and later became the Savilian Professor of Geometry. He made important meridian observations of a comet and a solar ecl...
1 memorial
Royal Society
Also known as the Royal Society of London (for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge). A learned society for science, granted a royal charter by King Charles II. Â Wren was a founding member. The Soc...
5 memorials
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