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    James Glaisher FRS (7 April 1809 – 7 February 1903) was an English meteorologist, aeronaut and astronomer. Born in Rotherhithe, the son of a London watchmaker...
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    James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (5 November 1848, in Lewisham — 7 December 1928, in Cambridge) was a prominent English mathematician and astronomer. He is...
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  • Glaisher is a surname, and may refer to: Cecilia Glaisher (1828–1892), photographer and illustrator James Glaisher (1809–1903), English meteorologist and...
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  • Appelina Glaisher (1845–1932), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928), and Ernest Henry Glaisher (1858–1885). James Glaisher's career is well documented...
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    consisting of Glaisher E at the northwest end and Glaisher G to the southeast. The crater was named after British meteorologist James Glaisher and its name...
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  • the two protagonists. In 1862 London, pilot Amelia Wren and scientist James Glaisher arrive for the launch of the largest balloon ever constructed. Despite...
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    flight from Wolverhampton, England that achieved a record altitude with James Glaisher in 1862, reaching at least 29,000 ft (8,800 m), and perhaps as high...
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    meteorological phenomena in general". Along with nine others, including James Glaisher, John Drew, Edward Joseph Lowe, The Revd Joseph Bancroft Reade, and...
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    you down in a puddle of well-earned tears." The Aeronauts, based on James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell's famous 1862 flight, and starring Eddie Redmayne...
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    advocated its adoption across wider industry. He has an elder brother, James Redmayne, a younger brother, and an elder half-brother, Charlie Redmayne...
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  • In mathematics, the Glaisher–Kinkelin constant or Glaisher's constant, typically denoted A, is a mathematical constant, related to special functions like...
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  • James Glaisher (died 1903), English meteorologist and balloonist. April 15 – Hermann Grassmann (died 1877), German mathematician. April 20 – James David...
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    Thomson-Houston in Rugby in 1947, receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971. James Glaisher in 1862 took a record balloon flight with Henry Tracey Coxwell for the...
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    suggested as a document preservation method in 1851 by the astronomer James Glaisher, and in 1853 by John Herschel, another astronomer. Both men attended...
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  • 5 September – Aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell and English physicist James Glaisher officially reach a height of 29,527 ft (9,000 m) in a coal gas balloon...
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    ruin his career. Airy and Challis were criticised, particularly by James Glaisher, as failing to exercise their proper role as mentors of a young talent...
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    (1944–2007), American, first solo non-stop balloon flight around the Earth. James Glaisher FRS (1809–1903), English meteorologist, astronomer, and pioneering balloonist...
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    Green, John Hollins (the artist), Robert Hollond M.P. Sir William Milbourne James, Thomas Monck Mason and Walter Prideaux. On 19 December 1836 he again went...
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    about 29,500 ft (9,000 m); Henry Coxwell and James Glaisher in a balloon filled with coal gas. Glaisher lost consciousness during the ascent due to the...
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    secretary of the committee was Andrew Pringle and the chairman was James Glaisher, president of the Photographic Society of Great Britain. By 1892, £500...
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  • (born 1819), Anglo-Irish mathematician and physicist. February 7 – James Glaisher (born 1809), English meteorologist and balloonist. March 28 – Émile...
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  • British-American biographical adventure film following the balloon expedition of James Glaisher, whose life goal is to travel into the sky to predict the weather and...
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  • Various Actors The Golden Glove Fritz Honka Jonas Dassler The Aeronauts James Glaisher Eddie Redmayne The Highwaymen Frank Hamer Kevin Costner Maney Gault...
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    the forefront of the profession. His chief mentor in this field was James Glaisher, one of the founders of the science of meteorology. Todd is believed...
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  • Mathematics Anil Kumar Gain, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society James Glaisher Peter Goddard, Master of St John's College, Cambridge 1994-2004 William...
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  • Evening Standard journalist Andrew Gilligan, currently lives in Greenwich James Glaisher FRS (1809–1903), pioneer meteorologist and balloon aeronaut, lived for...
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  • aeronautical society in the world. Early or founding members included James Glaisher, Francis Wenham, the Duke of Argyll, and Frederick Brearey. In the first...
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    errors in the Centenary Brochure. 1) The captions to the photographs of James Glaisher and Vice Admiral Sir Robert Fitzroy are transposed. 2) The claim that...
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  • 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist (born 1819) 7 February – James Glaisher, meteorologist and aeronaut (born 1809) 4 March – Joseph Henry Shorthouse...
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    and landed at Cottbus. Unofficially, Britons Henry Tracey Coxwell and James Glaisher were claimed to have reached as high as 11,300 metres (37,100 ft) on...
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