From galaxies to turbines : science, technology, and the Parsons family /
Scaife (engineering, U. of Dublin) explores how science and industry relate to each other by looking at the achievements of William Parsons (1800-67) and his son Charles. The former discovered the Spiral Nebula at his observatory in Ireland after designing and building the world's largest teles...
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Philadelphia :
Institute of Physics,
1999
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