In 1766, the Royal Society engaged Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun.

In 1874 – 1875, British, German and U. S. expeditions visited Kerguelen to observe the transit of Venus.

Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.

The scientists of this group observed the transit of Venus and recorded waves produced by the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

* December 6 – The last transit of the planet Venus until 2004 occurs.

* March 21 – A syzygy of planets occurs as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn.

* November 24 – Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.

* April 13 – James Cook arrives in Tahiti on the ship HM Bark Endeavour, preparing to observe the transit of the planet Venus, which takes place on June 3.

* June 6 – A transit of Venus occurs, and is observed from 120 locations around the Earth.

An observation of a transit of Venus requires a huge range of auxiliary beliefs, such as those that describe the optics of telescopes, the mechanics of the telescope mount, and an understanding of celestial mechanics, all of which must be justified separately.

An observation of a transit of Venus is justified by its being coherent with our beliefs about optics, telescope mounts and celestial mechanics.

* Edmond Halley observes the transit of Venus.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

In 1758 Maskelyne was admitted to the Royal Society, which in 1761 despatched him to the island of St. Helena to observe the transit of Venus.

The astronomical measurements taken of the transit of Venus by a number of countries since 1639 resulted in a progressively more accurate definition of the AU.

* June 5 – 6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs.

When Mercury passes in front of the Sun, it is a transit of Mercury, and when Venus passes in front of the Sun, it is a transit of Venus.

* 1716 – Edmond Halley suggests a high-precision measurement of the Sun-Earth distance by timing the transit of Venus

* 1761-Joseph-Nicolas Delisle 62 observing station network for observing the transit of Venus

* 1769-Short reflectors used at 63 station network for transit of Venus

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

What hurts most is the damage the automobile has done to central-city retailing, especially in those cities where public transit is feeble.

It is often stated that the submarine can be destroyed while building, at bases, in transit, and on station.

A precision transit is set up so that it is aligned with respect to true north.

With the transit set up, a mirror on one of the accelerometers is sighted and the platform is turned until it is aligned.

The sighting procedure includes the use of a fixture for the transit to project a beam of light, which is darkened by crossed hairs, on the accelerometer mirror.

If the platform is not too high off the ground, a transit can be mounted on a stand to raise it up to the platform.

Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

It is an essential responsibility of members of the museum profession to create and maintain a protective environment for the collections in their care, whether in store, on display, or in transit.

The only rapid transit system in Belgium is the Brussels Metro.

The other way that a waste may fall under the scope of the Convention is if it is defined as or considered to be a hazardous waste under the laws of either the exporting country, the importing country, or any of the countries of transit.

In many new fleets, particularly in local transit systems, there is an increasing shift to low-floor buses primarily for easier accessibility.

It is much used for the transit of large canoes, which are hauled across it from the Terni river, and which reach the Rio Negro by the little stream called the Pimichin.

A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.

The success of these grips ensured that this line became the model for other cable car transit systems, and this model is often known as the Hallidie Cable Car.

As such, Djibouti ’ s economy is dominated by the services sector, providing services as both a transit port for the region and as an international transshipment and refuelling centre.

The Santo Domingo Metro is the first mass transit system in the country, and second in the Caribbean & Central American nations after the Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

This system though is not very reliable and lacks discipline, the high number of public cars that transit the roads, and the fact that they do not lend itself to regulation or central control, which causes frequent transit problems among city roads.

The port is suitable for both turnaround and transit calls.

Two weeks after Soviet armies had entered the Baltic states, Berlin requested Finland to permit the transit of German troops, followed five weeks thereafter by Hitler's issuance of a secret directive " to take up the Russian problem, to think about war preparations ," a war whose objective would include establishment of a Baltic confederation.

It had allegedly often been used as a base for transit, training and shipments of arms and financing by Chechen rebels and Islamic militants, including foreign fighters from Afghanistan and Arab countries, many of whom followed Ruslan Gelayev.

* In 2011, Bandar Abbas was the country ’ s most active border in terms of transit ( 37 percent ), followed by Parvizkhan ( 17 percent ), Bazargan ( 9 percent ) and Bashmaq ( 7 percent ).

This followed a quarter-cent increase in mass transit taxes.

On the night of 5 February the transit began, the cavalry leading the way through the snow-covered ice, which quickly thawed beneath the horses ’ hoofs so that the infantry which followed after had to wade through half an ell of sludge, facing the risk that the ice would break beneath their feet.

Changes to the transit service through Jamaica Plain were followed with a change to the streetcar route as well.

This formulation identifies the actual path followed by the motion as a selection of the path over which the time integral of kinetic energy is least, assuming the total energy to be fixed, and imposing no conditions on the time of transit.

Chicago pioneered the location of rapid transit line in expressway medians, a practice that has since been followed in several other cities.

On March 1, 1968, WMATA approved its Adopted Regional System ( ARS ) plan that included suburban mass transit lines that followed the median of the proposed Interstate 66 through Virginia to Vienna and the CSX / Amtrak railroad right-of-way in Prince George's County, Maryland.

The transits also follow a 284-year cycle, occurring at intervals of 100. 5, 79, 25. 5, and 79 years ; a transit falling on a particular date is usually followed by another transit 284 years later.

The transit that occurred on 21 March, 1894 was particularly interesting because later on the same day there was a transit of Mercury from Saturn, followed by the beginning of a transit of Mercury as viewed from Venus, although no two of the transits occurred simultaneously.

Transits of Mercury from Jupiter occur in series, with a transit usually being followed by another after about 17, 330 days ( about 47. 44 years ).

A tripartite agreement followed on 31 December 1981, based on the revised mean annual flows from the flow series of 1921 – 60 assessed as ( including prepartition use of and transit losses in the Madhopur Beas Link of ) vis-a-vis the figure of assessed in earlier allocation, which was based on the flow series of 1921 – 45.

The cars then were transported by ferry to Bari, Italy, followed by a transit of the Targa Florio circuit in Sicily, before heading north to Rome and Florence.

" Check washing " involves the theft of a cheque in transit between the writer and recipient, followed by the use of chemicals to remove the ink representing all parts other than the signature.

Sprawling development into recently rustic northern part of the Town of New Lots followed the reach of elevated transit lines into the area: the Jamaica Avenue Line in 1885 and the Fulton Street Line in 1889.

For her first transit of the Northwest Passage, Larsen had followed Amundsen's route.

Some of the rides were damaged in transit and then followed by legal discussions of who would pay for the damages.

Transportation as a whole ( driving, flying & small amount from public transit ) is the largest overall category, followed by housing ( electricity, natural gas, waste, construction ) then food ( mostly from red meat, dairy and seafood products, but also includes emissions from all other food ), then goods followed lastly by services.

During this period, most marshrutkas followed already well-established public transit routes.