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	Electrical - LoveToKnow 1911
		Edward Nairne's electrical machine (1787) consisted of a glass cylinder with two insulated conductors, called prime conductors, on glass legs placed near it.
		The function of the apron is to prevent the escape of electrification from the glass during its passage from the rubber to the collecting points.
		Nairne's machine could give either positive or negative electricity, the first named being collected from the prime conductor carrying the collecting points and the second from the prime conductor carrying the cushion.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Electrical (3289 words)

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		NAIRNE, CAROLINA, BARONESS (1766-1845), Scottish song writer, was born in the " auld hoose " of Gask, Perthshire, on the r6th of August 1766.
		Nairn and Elgin shires combine to return one member to parliament, and the county town belongs to the Inverness district group of parliamentary burghs (Forres, Fortrose, Inverness and Nairn).
		William, who took the name of Nairne and became and Baron Nairne, joined the standard of the Jacobites in 1715; he was taken prisoner at the battle of Preston and was sentenced to death.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=47326 (996 words)

	early English flame mahogany stick barometer by Edward Nairne circa 1770. early english horologic instruments.Early ...
		Edward Nairne constructed the first successful marine barometer by constricting the glass tube between the cistern and register plate.
		Nairne patented several electrical machines, including an electrostatic generator consisting of a glass cylinder mounted on glass insulators; the device can supply either positive or negative electricity, and was intended for medicinal use.
		Nairne was a regular contributor to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, and was elected a fellow of that institution in 1776.
	www.timelyinvestments.com /clocks/nairne1.html (450 words)

	Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Museum of Microscopy - Peter Dollond Chest Microscope
		The Peter Dollond compound chest microscope is based on improvements to the Cuff-style microscope introduced by British scientific instrument designers Edward Nairne and Thomas Blunt around 1780.
		Nairne and Blunt's design replaced Cuff's pyramid-shaped microscope case with a more portable, wooden chest that acted as both base and storage box for the optical instrument and its accessories.
		The Dollond optical instrument firm adopted the popular eighteenth-century design, which employed a hinged brass pillar for rapid assembly and allowed inclination of the microscope for greater comfort and better illumination.
	www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu /primer/museum/dollondchest1780.html (413 words)

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		Nairne says that the French officer, Bougainville, who had known the Canadians in many campaigns, called them at Murray's table a brave and submissive people; he thought they needed the strong hand of authority and added that he was sure the British method of government would soon spoil them.
		Nairne was to tell them that the Americans would borrow their dollars, take their provisions, pay for them only in worthless letters of credit upon the Congress, and even make free with their lands.
		Nairne was in command of a portion of the Highland Emigrants, who were the vanguard of the British pursuing force, and was among the first to occupy the American batteries.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16747/16747-8.txt (20598 words)

	Vulcanization
		The rotting process is partly to do with proteins being broken down much as milk proteins do, but also due to the large rubber molecules breaking up as they oxidise in the air.
		(Chain scission, for the technically-minded) The first reference to rubber in Europe appears to be in 1770, when Edward Nairne was selling cubes of natural rubber from his shop at 20 Cornhill in London.
		The cubes, meant to be erasers, sold for the astonishingly high price of 3 shillings per half-inch cube.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/v/vu/vulcanization.html (1535 words)

	Bank of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottish and Northern Irish banks retain the right to issue their own banknotes, but they must be backed one to one with deposits in the Bank of England, excepting a few million pounds representing the value of notes they had in circulation in 1845.
		By 1999 this note had been extensively copied, and therefore it became the first denomination to be replaced by a second Series E design, featuring a bolder denomination figure at the top left of the obverse side, and a reverse side featuring the composer Sir Edward Elgar and Worcester Cathedral.
		The fifty pound denomination, much beloved of second hand car and antique dealers, did not reappear until 1981 when a Series D design was issued featuring the architect Christopher Wren and the plan of Saint Paul's Cathedral on the reverse of this large note.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bank_of_England (2405 words)

	Nairne and Blunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		London instrument makers Edward Nairne (1726-1806) and Thomas Blunt (d.
		One of the innovations introduced by Edward Nairne was the "chest microscope," which provided the instrument with more portability.
		This "chest" microscope, a variation on the Cuff model, has a square section pillar hinged to the base of the box.
	ar.utmb.edu /areas/informresources/collections/blocker/microscopes/makers/nairne.asp (124 words)

	The Lloyd Family
		Edward was 24 years of age when he arrived.
		Edward Henry Lloyd, born 1st Aug. 1859, at Mt. Pleasant, District of Talunga, South Australia.
		Edward married Sarah Ann EAMER on the 28th of May 1888, at the residence of Mrs.
	www.geocities.com /lady_evergreen/lloyd.htm (1443 words)

	IngentaConnect Origins of the marine barometer
		The competition between France and England was won by Edward Nairne, who devised the constricted-tube barometer for Captain Cook's second voyage of 1772-75.
		Nairne barometers were soon taken on other British exploring voyages, but French ships were slow to follow the pattern, possibly in consequence of naval disruption following the Revolution.
		The earliest Nairne examples were adapted from the domestic barometer, with the tube mounted on a flat back, but within the lifetime of Nairne and Blunt marine barometers adopted the form common for most of the nineteenth century, with the tube enclosed within a square or round-section wooden frame.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/tandf/tasc/2005/00000062/00000001/art00003 (249 words)

	Nairne and Blunt Electrostatic Generator
		Edward Nairne and Thomas Blunt were partners during the years 1774-1793.
		One of the variants of this machine sold by Nairne and Blunt had the main terminal suspended from above by silken cords.
		The amount of electricity in the main terminal can be read from the Henley electrometer plugged into the left sphere of the main terminal.
	www.thebakken.org /artifacts/Nairne.htm (405 words)

	NMAH \| Navigation \| Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This telescope has an achromatic objective, a four-element erecting eye piece, and a wooden tube with two sections that screw together in the middle.
		It was made after the invention of achromatic lenses in 1758, and before 1774 when Edward Nairne (1726-1806) went into partnership with Thomas Blunt.
		Ref: Deborah Warner, "Edward Nairne: Scientist and Instrument Maker," Rittenhouse 12 (1998): 65-93.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/navigation/object.cfm?recordnumber=1183780 (69 words)

	People - The Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
		Barlow], Edward, #344, 23rd September 1695, "Watch or clock, with the balance-wheel flat or hollow, to work within and cross the centre of the verge, with teeth like tenterhooks to move the balance or pendulum, the pallets of the verge to be circular, concave and convex.
		Edwards, John, #2230, 18th April 1798, "Instruments for ascertaining the geographical position of vessels at sea," p.176.
		Nairne, Edward, #1318, 5th February 1782, "Electrical-machine, or a method of insulating such machine, and constructing the conductors so that either shocks or sparks may be received from them.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~hsdept/bios/biagioli-db.html (5653 words)

	Refrigeration Summary
		Edward Nairne (1726-1806) and John Leslie (1766-1832) discovered that sulfuric acid absorbs water vapor, an effect that produces cold.
		The second type of refrigeration, aqua-ammonia absorption, grew out of experiments by Edward Nairne (1726-1806), John Leslie (1766-1832), and John Vallance (1801-1850) in which they used sulfuric acid to absorb water.
		In 1777, Gerald Nairne accelerated Cullen's process by using sulfuric acid to absorb the water.
	www.bookrags.com /Refrigeration (5458 words)

	Worldroots.com
		Under the special remainder in the creation of his father-in-law's title, he became the second Baron Nairne and as Lord Nairne was admitted to Parliament on 22 April 1690.
		During the Jacobite uprising of 1715, he is said to have attended the Earl of Mar's Hunting at Braemar on 26 August; and he was in command of a battalion of Drummonds at Sheriffmuir, 13 November 1715, where he was captured and imprisoned.
		In the 'Forty-Five' he joined Prince Charles Edward at Perth in September 1745 and was then appointed Governor of Perth and Commander-in-Chief of the forces during the march into England.
	worldroots.com /brigitte/royal/churchilll.htm (8945 words)

	oneohm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During the 1730s the honorary professors of the Academie Frangaise in Paris were amazed to find a sticky, stinking, brown lump that displayed an incredible elasticity among samples sent to them from French explorer Charles Marie de la Condamine.
		He reached for some breadcrumbs as was customary at the time but accidentally picked up a piece of rubber that was also lying on the table.
		Inspired by this discovery, Nairne obtained more pieces of rubber and sold them as "rubbers" because they were used for "rubbing out." This proved to be the first practical use for the material and we still use rubber erasers today.
	www.oneohm.com (2331 words)

	Tudor 16
		Edward Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Capt. Hon., M.V.O., * 1967, Md. 2004, Joanne Margaret (Jo) Grant, d.
		Edward Seymour, Maj. Sir, K.C.V.O., D.S.O., O.B.E., * 1877, + 1948, Md. 1905, Lady Blanche Frances Conyngham, * 1884, + 1956, d.
		Edward Spencer Harry Boyle, Capt. Hon., R.N., * 1870, + 1937, Md. 1904, Lily Gardner, + 1953, d.
	www.william1.co.uk /t16.htm (3818 words)

	Edward Corp
		David Nairne was born and educated at St Andrews, but left Scotland in 1675 at the age of 18, and never returned.
		From 1676 to 1688 he lived in Paris, after which he was employed for over forty years in the secretariat of the Jacobite Court in exile, first at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and then, after 1716, in the Papal States.
		This paper will examine the links between Nairne and his cousins, the 4th and 5th Earls of Panmure.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /mrg/thistlerose/edwardcorp.htm (322 words)

	Magnetic.instruments
		Nairne, for instance, removed the needle from his apparatus and reversed its poles, then replaced it taking a new set of measurements.
		Cavendish also placed the instruments in a garden nearly a mile away from the Royal Society's apartments and compared sets of readings taken inside and outside to determine errors caused by ironwork in the buildings.
		Captain Edward Sabine reported in 1819 that the dipping needle used for his expedition was of the same construction as Cavendish's.
	faculty.kirkwood.edu /ryost/minneapolis.htm (2193 words)

	Websters Instrument Makers Database - Letter N
		Edward Nairne and Thomas Blunt 1; Blunt had been apprenticed to Nairne from 1760 to 1771.
		brother-in-law of Edward Baker; globes dated 1783 were redrawn from Hill's 1754 plates, signed "Palmer and Newton 1783", a later edition was signed "J. Newton 1783"; T.C.; Palmer and Newton, c.1783; Newton and Son (William 2); J. and W. Newton; Newton, Son and Berry, 1838; see James Newton.
		Wheel Barometer = D. watch, clock and barometer makers; the son was probably Edward Northen; the barometer was marked "46 Lowgate, Hull"; the firm was succeeded by W. White 2, c.1845.
	www.adlerplanetarium.org /research/collections/websters/n.shtml (3481 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Competition, politics and craft skill all played their part; the race was won when Captain Cook took two barometers designed by Edward Nairne on his second voyage of 1772-1775.
		But France, and perhaps Spain, remained for some years ignorant of Nairne’s design, while the French Revolution put an end to developments in that country.
		With Nairne’s barometer a commonplace, descriptions ceased to appear, obscuring the further stages culminating in the marine barometer in a form that endured throughout the 19th century.
	www.sic.iuhps.org /conf2000/ox_s06a.htm (493 words)

	Centre for First World War Studies
		Brigadier-General Edward Spencer Hoare-Nairne (1869-1958) was a gunner.
		I was amused to read your mention of my grandfather, Brigadier-General E.S. Hoare Nairne, as the ‘Long 'un’.
		Although I never knew him, I am pleased to confirm that he was indeed very tall, indeed uniquely so in the history of our family, which remains otherwise very short.
	www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk /nicknames/nairne.htm (109 words)

	RSA Treasure Trails - The National Maritime Museum & Royal Observatory, Greenwich
		This meteorological instrument, for measuring atmospheric pressure, was made by Nairne and bought by the fifth Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne.
		Nairne began his working life apprenticed to Matthew Loft and in 1748 became a freeman of the Spectaclemakers' Company.
		Working from a shop opposite the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, London, Nairne published his trade cards in French and English, made magnets and achromatic telescopes for Benjamin Franklin, and dipping needles for Captain Phipps's voyage to the North Pole.
	www.rsa.org.uk /250/maritime.asp (2286 words)

	The National Archives \| National Register of Archives \| Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
		Nairne, David (fl 1720) Secretary to the Pretender (2)
		Nairne, Sir Perceval Alleyn (1841-1921) Knight Solicitor (1)
		Nairne, Thomas (d 1715) Planter Legislator and Indian Agent in South Carolina (1)
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/person/page/person_NA.htm (786 words)

	Manufacturers, importers and suppliers of magic lanterns l-o
		The firm, that sold 'Magick Lanterns', became Nairne and Blunt from c.1774 to 1793.
		In the mid19th century William Edward and Frederic Newton founded a partnership dealing in magic lanterns and other optical and scientific equipment.
		In 1858 the business became a company known as Newton and Co. They became one of the most important British lantern and slide manufacturers, with a reputation for quality.
	www.luikerwaal.com /fabrikanten_lo_uk.htm (3725 words)

	thePeerage.com - nil and others
		David Edward Hugh Bigham was born on 14 April 1938.
		He is the son of Edward Clive Bigham, 3rd Viscount Mersey and Katherine Evelyn Constance Petty-FitzMaurice, Baroness Nairne.
		She married Richard Maurice Clive Bigham, 4th Viscount Mersey, son of Edward Clive Bigham, 3rd Viscount Mersey and Katherine Evelyn Constance Petty-FitzMaurice, Baroness Nairne, on 6 May 1961.
	www.thepeerage.com /p5208.htm (568 words)

	The Instrument in the History of Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Southern Germany was prominent in the 19th century and Holland in the 17th, but the 18th century was the turn of London, the leading market for scientific instruments.
		The names of Edward Nairne (1726-1820), George Adams (ca 1704-1773), George Atwood (1726-1802), Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800) and Dollond were found on high quality instruments throughout Europe.
		Their aesthetic aspect lay solely in the nobility of the materials: glass, brass, walnut and cashew wood.
	www1.fis.uc.pt /museu/histing.htm (3268 words)

	Electricity from Glass
		About 1700 Francis Hauksbee the Elder suggested that a glass cylinder be used in place of the sphere.
		The form of cylinder electrostatic machine at the right was patented by Edward Nairne (1726-1806) in 1782.
		It is unmarked, but it is almost certainly by Edward S. Ritchie of Boston.
	physics.kenyon.edu /EarlyApparatus/Static_Electricity/Electricity_from_Glass/Electricity_from_Glass.html (947 words)

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