They determined to reinvestigate the motion of γ Draconis ; the telescope, constructed by George Graham ( 1675 – 1751 ), a celebrated instrument-maker, was affixed to a vertical chimney stack, in such manner as to permit a small oscillation of the eyepiece, the amount of which ( i. e. the deviation from the vertical ) was regulated and measured by the introduction of a screw and a plumb line.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Englishman Captain George Augustus Graham is responsible with a few other breeders for reaffirming the dogs ' existence.

It is not often recognized that in his earlier work on the " Sea clocks " Harrison was continually assisted both financially and in many other ways by George Graham, the watchmaker and instrument maker who lent him a large sum on the basis of trust even after Harrison's first visit to Graham in 1728 to explain how his timekeeper worked.

Halley referred him to George Graham, the country's foremost clockmaker.

* 1894-First ascent of Aoraki / Mount Cook, on Christmas Day, by Jack Clarke, Tom Fyfe and George Graham

Billy Graham at Washington National Cathedral, with President George W. Bush and past and present top officials in attendance.

* George J. Graham, Jr., political theorist

In 1859, Sherman accepted a job as the first superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy in Pineville, a position he sought at the suggestion of Major D. C. Buell and secured because of General George Mason Graham.

Besides a brief appearance of the brothers in Japan around 1994, and George making a guest-appearance in the 1990s on a concert in Japan ( including a released double-CD ) of the Graham Central Station, the duo launched an expanded US tour in 2002 which got positive, wide exposure.

* George Graham Vest ( 1830 – 1904 ) U. S. Senator from Missouri

Before the qualification competition, George Graham,

The first modern orrery was built circa 1704 by George Graham and Thomas Tompion.

Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw ( who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion ), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J.

The LSE records that the proposal to establish the school was conceived during a breakfast meeting on 4 August 1894, between the Webbs, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw.

He married Alice Anna Graham, daughter of William Graham, on 16 May 1871 in the St George Hanover Square area.

Once in the U. S. he taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable students as Lukas Foss, Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, Ruth Schonthal, and Oscar-winning film director George Roy Hill.

Together with Lee Dixon, Nigel Winterburn and Steve Bould, Adams was part of the " famous four " that lined up in Arsenal's defence, which under George Graham was renowned for its well-disciplined use of the offside trap.

* Jim Graham Papers, 1973-2006 ( 80. 5 linear feet ) are housed at the George Washington University Libraries Special Collections Research Center.

M. Robinson, Hiram Kent, Edward Powers, George Reed, Robert Graham, Samuel Gamble, A.

), C. Hodgson Fowler ( 1856 – 60 ), Thomas Gardner ( 1856 – 61 ), Thomas Graham Jackson ( 1858 – 61 ), John T. Micklethwaite ( 1862 – 69 ), Benjamin Mountfort ( 1841 – 46 ), John Norton ( 1870 – 78 ), George Gilbert Scott, Jr. ( 1856 – 63 ), John Oldrid Scott ( 1858 – 78 ), J. J. Stevenson ( 1858 – 60 ), George Henry Stokes ( 1843 – 47 ), George Edmund Street ( 1844 – 49 ), William White ( 1845 – 47 ).

* Goot, Murray, " Contingent Inevitability: Reflections on the Prognosis for Republicanism " ( 1994 ) in George Winterton ( ed ), We, the People: Australian Republican Government ( 1994 ), pp 63 – 96

* Winterton, George ( ed ), We, the People: Australian Republican Government, Allen & Unwin ( 1994 ),

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* George Winterton

George Graham Winterton ( 15 December 1946 – 6 November 2008 ) was Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney.

George Winterton was ultimately promoted to professor of law at the University of New South Wales, who awarded him a Jubilee Medallion in 1999.

George Winterton provided legal advice to Commonwealth and state governments, other public bodies and law firms.

George Winterton died in Sydney on 6 November 2008, aged 61.

A gedenkschrift in celebration of his life and learning has been published: H. P. Lee & Peter Gerangelos ( eds ) Constitutional Advancement in a Frozen Continent: Essays in Honour of George Winterton ( 2009 ).

The inaugural George Winterton lecture was delivered by Chief Justice Robert French, of the High Court of Australia, at the Sydney Law School, the University of Sydney, on the topic of the Executive Power under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia in February 2010.

George Winterton founded and was, until his death, the General Editor of Constitutional Law and Policy Review.

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There are four public houses in Winterton: Butchers Arms on High Street, The George Hogg on Church Side, Cross Keys on King Street and Lions Head on Park Street.

* George Winterton, Australian barrister

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;

The next speaker was George T. Day.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.