• Thomas Hubbard Sumner (20 March 1807 – 9 March 1876) was a sea captain during the 19th century. He is best known for developing the celestial navigation...
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  • Thomas Sumner may refer to: Thomas Hubbard Sumner (1807–1876), sea captain known for developing a celestial navigation method Thomas Waldron Sumner (1768–1849)...
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    Chemistry Jessie Sumner, U.S. Representative from Illinois Thomas Waldron Sumner, architect Thomas Hubbard Sumner, navigator Allen Melancthon Sumner, US Marine...
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  • Mechanick Association. Sumner married Elizabeth Hubbard (1770–1839); children included Caroline Sumner (born 1796) and Thomas Hubbard Sumner. His parents were...
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  • Ancient Greece Thomas Hubbard Sumner (1807–1876), sea captain Thomas Hubbard Vail (1821–1889), first Episcopal Bishop of Kansas Cape Thomas Hubbard, a headland...
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    important in the history of navigation. In 1837, the American Captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner discovered the concept of celestial position lines—the circle of...
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    1997. It is the fourth United States Navy ship named Sumner, in this case for Thomas Hubbard Sumner, an American sea captain who discovered the principles...
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  • Melancthon Sumner. The survey ships, AGS-5 and T-AGS-61, were named after the 19th century Navy captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner. The first USS Sumner (DD-333)...
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    the survey ships USS Sumner (AGS-5) and USNS Sumner (T-AGS-61), were named for 19th century Navy captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner.  This article incorporates...
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    American sea-captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner in 1837, published in 1843 and is the basis of an important method in celestial navigation. Sumner discovered the...
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  • Zealand football player T. B. Sumner (1857–1934), American politician Thomas Hubbard Sumner (1807–1876), American mariner Tim Sumner (footballer) (born 1994)...
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    The celestial line of position concept was discovered in 1837 by Thomas Hubbard Sumner when, after one observation, he computed and plotted his longitude...
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  • from the ground by FIDS in December 1958. Named by UK-APC after Thomas Hubbard Sumner (1807–76), American sailor who, in 1837, introduced the position...
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    chemist, and Charles Sumner Tainter, an optical instrument maker, at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Hubbard and Chester Bell...
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  • (flourished c. 166 BC) WGPSN Sumner 37°37′N 108°46′E / 37.62°N 108.76°E / 37.62; 108.76 (Sumner) 52.87 1970 Thomas Hubbard Sumner (1807–1876) WGPSN Sundman...
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    Sumner, for whom the Sumner Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts, is named, and 20th-century diplomats Sumner Welles and Sumner Gerard. Increase Sumner was...
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    Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone...
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  • (1900–49) "Senator Elbert Hamilton Hubbard". Iowa General Assembly. Retrieved November 30, 2023. "Hubbard for Congress," Sumner Journal, 1904-05-12 at p.1. "Republicans...
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    daughter's shares by power of attorney. Thomas Sanders, its principal financial backer, was treasurer. Hubbard also organized the New England Telephone...
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    a radiophone, is invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter at Bell's Volta Laboratory. The device allowed for the transmission...
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    birth, and 15-year-old Mabel Hubbard. Each played an important role in the next developments. Georgie's father, Thomas Sanders, a wealthy businessman...
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  • Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Thomas Butchko and Jim Sumner (June 1985). "West Main–North Chesnutt Streets Historic District"...
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  • humanitarian ambassador Tasha Holiday (born 1977/78), American singer Tasha Hubbard (born 1973), Canadian filmmaker and educator Tasha Humphrey (born 1985)...
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    Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric...
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    OT III materials containing the Xenu myth. When read an excerpt from Hubbard's writing, Davis told Baca "I'm familiar with the material," and said that...
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    married Sarah Sumner Cushing (niece of both U.S. Supreme Court associate Justice William Cushing and Massachusetts Governor Increase Sumner). Henry Paine...
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    (1779–1861) ∞ (1) 1806: Maria Theresa Gold; (2) 1839: Harriet Coffin Sumner Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884) Mary "Molly" Appleton (b. 1813) ∞ Robert James...
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    Sawyer Parris 1748 Thomas Chapman 1749 Edmund Keene 1751 John Wilcox 1752 Philip Yonge 1754 Hugh Thomas 1755 Edmund Law 1756 John Sumner 1757 John Green...
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    Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred Vail Thomas A. Watson Charles Wheatstone Vladimir K. Zworykin...
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  • Shannon Almon Brown Strowger Henry Sutton Charles Sumner Tainter Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred Vail Thomas A. Watson Charles Wheatstone Vladimir K. Zworykin...
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