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	William Cranch Bond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 – January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory.
		William Cranch Bond was born in Falmouth, Maine (now Portland, Maine) on September 9, 1789.
		Bond and his son George Phillips Bond discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion; it was independently co-discovered at the same time by William Lassell in Britain, and both are given credit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Cranch_Bond (481 words)

	NMAH \| Navigation \| Bond
		The founder, William Bond, was an English silversmith and watchmaker who settled in Boston.
		William Cranch Bond, his son, built the first American chronometer that went to sea.
		The Bonds also develiped a break circuit device that attached to the escapement of a clock that was particularly useful as part of the "American method" of determining longitude; it earned a Council Medal at the London Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/navigation/maker.cfm?makerid=98 (157 words)

	William Cranch Bond (1789-1859) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Cranch Bond was born in Falmouth, District of Maine, Mass.
		With this instrument, Bond made extensive studies of sunspots, the Orion Nebula M42 and planet Saturn; in 1848, together with his son, George Phillips Bond, he discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion, at that time the 8th known moon of the ring planet (it was also independently discovered in the same year by William Lassell).
		William and George Bond were also the first in America to use Daguerre's photographic process for astrophotography: In the night of July 16-17, 1850, they worked with J.A. Whipple, a photographer associated with the Massachusetts General Hospital, to obtain the first Daguerreotype of a star, Vega, a 100 seconds exposure.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/wcbond.html (315 words)

	William Cranch Bond - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1839 the observatory was founded; Bond supervised its construction and became its first director.
		With it, Bond made elaborate studies of sunspots, of the Orion nebula, and of the planet Saturn, publishing his results chiefly in the Annals of the Harvard College Observatory.
		Together with his son he developed the chronograph for automatically recording the position of stars, and he was a pioneer in the use of the chronometer and the telegraph for determining longitude.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bond-w1il.html (424 words)

	Bond, William Cranch (1789-1859) and George Phillips (1825-1865)
		William became an expert maker of chronometers and by 1812 was fashioning most of the superior ones used by ships sailing out of Boston.
		With it, Bond studied sunspots, the Orion Nebula, and Saturn.
		His observations led him to reject the previously held theory that the rings of Saturn were solid, though his hypothesis of their being in a fluid state was in turn soon discarded.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/BondW.html (348 words)

	Dorchester Atheneum: William Cranch Bond Fifield
		WILLIAM CRANCH BOND FIFIELD, M.D., late one of the best-known physicians of Boston, was born in Weymouth, Mass., August 27, 1828, and died in Dorchester, September 10, 1896.
		He was the son of Dr. Noah and Hannah Cranch (Bond) Fifield, and grandson of Ebenezer and Mary (Sanborn) Fifield, of East Kingston, N.H. His father was for sixty years a practising physician of Weymouth.
		His mother, Hannah Cranch Bond, was of English parentage, a daughter of William Bond, of Bond & Son, watch and chronometer makers, Boston, and sister of William Cranch Bond, the early director of the observatory at Cambridge.
	www.dorchesteratheneum.org /page.php?id=402 (661 words)

	Chronology of Science in the United States 1850-1859
		William Cranch Bond (1789-1859) and George Phillips Bond (1825-1865) discovered the Crepe (dusky) or C ring of Saturn.
		William P. Blake (1825-1910) became what was probably the first full-time American college-educated chemist to work for an industrial concern (a Baltimore chemical manufacturer).
		A steelmaking process was devised by William Kelly (1811-1888) (in Eddyville, Kentucky) that was similar to the Bessemer process developed in England in 1856.
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	Bond William Cranch - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bond was the first director of the Harvard College Observatory and a leader in early...
		Bond, George Phillips (1825-1865), American astronomer, a pioneer of photographic astronomy.
		With his father, William Cranch Bond, he established...
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	The Bonds: Pioneers of American Astronomy
		Although William Cranch Bond grew up in poverty and left school at an early age to support the family his interest in astronomy and personal traits lead him to be selected as the first Director of the Harvard College Observatory.
		In August 1842 William Cranch Bond’s brother in law, George Cranch, was commissioned as Harvard’s agent in the selection and negotiations for a large refracting telescope.
		Their work has been recognized by the Royal Astronomical Society, as William Cranch Bond was chosen as the first American to be elected one of the fifty Foreign Associates of this body in 1849, while George Phillips Bond was chosen in 1863.
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	Terms and Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the earliest American astronomers of note, Bond rose from poverty and overcame a lack of formal education to become the first director of the Harvard College Observatory.
		At the observatory, he studied Saturn and (with William Lassell) discovered its moon Hyperion.
		The outermost part of a planetary magnetosphere; the place where the supersonic flow of the solar wind is slowed to subsonic speed by the planetary magnetic field.
	library.thinkquest.org /18188/english/glossary/b_glossary.htm (247 words)

	Bond, William Cranch
		Bond was born in Falmouth, Maine, and worked as a watchmaker.
		He was commissioned by Harvard College to investigate the equipment at observatories in England during a trip he made there in 1815, and in 1839 Harvard invited him to move his private observatory into their premises.
		William and George Bond discovered Hyperion (the eighth satellite of Saturn) 1848 and the Crêpe Ring (a faint ring inside two bright rings) around Saturn 1850.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/BondW/1.html (177 words)

	Visual Observations - Page 1
		It was Harvard astronomer William H. Pickering, brother of Edward C. Pickering who was the fourth director of the Harvard College Observatory, who first discovered it on photographs made at Mount Wilson in 1889.
		William H. Pickering wrote about the arc, and after Edward E. Barnard found it on photographs he took in 1894 he recalled reading Pickering's comments about it.
		George Bond suggested that he leave astronomy, as he felt they would starve, but Hall laughed and said he and his wife had made their minds and that they were sure they would make it.
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	Bond DNA Project
		William is thought to be descended from the Bond's of Erth.
		William Arthur, S.A. (1884), and a child with his second wife: Dee W. 7972- Stephan Bond born c1763 in Virginia or Vermont, removed to Canada.
		14154- William Bond born 1695 of Watertown, Massachusetts.
	www.historicalgenetics.com /bondfamily (1155 words)

	AllRefer.com - George Phillips Bond (Astronomy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He became the assistant of his father, William Cranch Bond, and in 1859 succeeded him as director of the Harvard College Observatory.
		While they were studying Saturn together, George, in 1848, discovered its eighth satellite, Hyperion (which was independently discovered in that same year by the English astronomer William Lassell).
		His observations led him to reject the previously held theory that the rings of Saturn were of solid structure, though his hypothesis of their being in fluid state was in turn soon discarded.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bond-Geo.html (327 words)

	William Cranch Bond Summary
		American astronomer who, with his son George Bond, discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring of Saturn in 1848.
		A selfeducated watchmaker who discovered a number of comets, William Bond became the first astronomical observer at Harvard Observatory in 1839 and its first director in 1847.
		William Cranch Bond from Science and Its Times.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Cranch_Bond (554 words)

	William Cranch Bond
		BOND, William Cranch, astronomer, born in Portland, Maine, 9 September 1789; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 29 January 1859.
		He was the son of a watchmaker, and was brought up to that trade, but at the same time studied astronomy and conducted observations in a private observatory that he built in Dorchester.
		Bond for a work on the Donati comet (Cambridge, 1862).
	www.famousamericans.net /williamcranchbond (425 words)

	William Bond ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Bond, "How I Love to Laugh_Never Was a Weeper", title page vignette in the book The Pleasures of Human Life by Hilari Benevolus & Co. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme 1807), 1807
		William Faithorne, At the upper end of the plate you have the woman"s arm..., plate 8 opposite page 22 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
		As part of the current Bond Program the campus is undergoing extensive seismic upgrades and construction over the next two to six years.
	www.wwar.com /masters/b/bond-william.html (1881 words)

	Made for Bond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Barraud made a series of watches for the Boston watch and instrument maker William Cranch Bond and Sons.
		The Bond signature on the dustcap is W. Bond and Sons and would date the watch to the early 1860's.
		The only known example marked for the Vermont Railway is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum but there is documentary evidence that at least 10 were made under the contract with a possible extension.
	www.awco.org /European/Barraud/B-LBond/B-Lbond.htm (148 words)

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		Bond was director of Harvard College Observatory from 1859-1865, following his father William Cranch Bond (1789-1859).
		Bond published his observations (among others by Coolidge, Safford and Tuttle) in AN #1453 (1863).
		Most of the objects are also listed in Arthur Auwers' list of new nebulae (William Herschel's Verzeichnisse von Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen, Königsberg 1862).
	www.klima-luft.de /steinicke/ngcic/persons/bond.htm (141 words)

	People in Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His accurate astronomical observations formed the basis for Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
		The leading apex of the triangle is known as the leading Lagrange point or L4; the trailing apex is the trailing Lagrange point or L5.
		La Verrier's prediction of the position of an undiscovered planet (Neptune) that caused perturbations in the orbit of Uranus was the first to be confirmed (by Johann Gottfried Galle).
	www.solarviews.com /eng/people.htm (957 words)

	William Lassell, Astronomer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Lassell was an amateur astronomer, who made his fortune as a brewer.
		He found the eighth moon of Saturn, Hyperion, in 1848, one day after the American William Cranch Bond.
		William Lassell, a brief history with key dates.
	www.todayinsci.com /L/Lassell_William/Lassell_William.htm (316 words)

	George Phillips Bond — FactMonster.com
		Memorials of William Cranch Bond and of His Son George Phillips Bond
		William Cranch Bond - Bond, William Cranch, 1789–1859, American astronomer, b.
		Hyperion, in astronomy - Hyperion, in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn.
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	Bond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bond number, in fluid mechanics, a dimensionless number expressing the ratio of gravitational forces to surface tension forces
		Chemical bond, the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms
		Bond, the manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid in brickwork
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bond (225 words)

	William Cranch Bond Online Encyclopedia Article About William Cranch Bond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William Cranch Bond Online Encyclopedia Article About William Cranch Bond
		A donation provided for a 15-inch telescope, for which he designed the dome and chair.
		A pioneer in celestial photography, he discovered the seventh satellite of Saturn with his son George Bond.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/011/William-Cranch-Bond.html (109 words)

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	AllRefer.com - William Cranch Bond (Astronomy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - William Cranch Bond (Astronomy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		See E. Holden, Memorials of William Cranch Bond and of His Son George Phillips Bond (1897).
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	George Phillips Bond (1826-65) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born on May 25, 1826 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as son of William Cranch Bond.
		G.P. Bond and his father, W.C. Bond, have been honored by naming a moon crater Bond (33.2S, 36.0W, 110.6 km diameter, in 1973).
		Asteroid (767) Bondia was discovered on September 23, 1913 by J. Metcalf at Winchester observatory and provisionally designated 1913 SX; other independent findings had been designated A902 SA, 1929 OA, 1933 FO1, 1938 DQ2, 1957 UR, 1958 XA1, and 1959 AD.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/gpbond.html (113 words)

	William Cranch Bond
		• Apprenticed after 1801 to William Bond in Boston MA after his training, his interest turned to timepieces and astronomy
		• He was a partner c 1855 with Robert and Charles Bond in Boston MA as WM BOND and SONS, listed in the 1855 city directory at 17 Congress Street.
		William married Selina Cranch on 18 Jul 1819 in Portland ME. (Selina Cranch was born on 21 Sep 1800 in Kingsbridge, Devon, England.)
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