John Alfred Brashear (November 24, 1840 – April 8, 1920) was an American astronomer and instrument builder. Brashear was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania...
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Carl Maxie Brashear (January 19, 1931 – July 25, 2006) was a United States Navy sailor. He was a Master Diver, rising to the position in 1970, despite...
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American ice hockey player Gerald Brashear, American jazz musician John Brashear (1840–1920), American astronomer Kermit Brashear (born 1944), American Nebraska...
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The John A. Brashear House and Factory in the Perry South neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1886. Former home of astronomer John Brashear...
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(17") 9,7 m 1894 Gautier Brashear Refractor, Goodsell Observatory Northfield, Minnesota, USA - 41.15 cm (16.2") 1890 by John Brashear Herget Telescope Cincinnati...
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Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear, the first African American master diver in the United States Navy. Carl Brashear leaves his native Kentucky and...
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Blue Marvel (redirect from Adam Brashear)
Blue Marvel (Adam Bernard Brashear) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Kevin Grevioux, who originally...
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State of Texas—Brashear was born on July 9, 1866. He was the son of John Brashear, a Harris County Clerk. Brashear, like his father John, started his career...
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Allegheny Observatory, James Edward Keeler and John Brashear.[1] In addition, the crypt holds the remains of Brashear's wife Phoebe and Keeler's wife Cora Matthews...
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the south pole. The crater is named after the American astronomer John A. Brashear. It lies just to the south of the walled plain Antoniadi, within the...
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length), commissioned in 1914 from Warner & Swasey, with optics by John Brashear. It is the largest refractor in the western United States regularly...
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Morgan City, Louisiana (redirect from Brashear City, Louisiana)
Secretary of War John Calhoun, because of a particular type of wild cat seen in the area. It was later changed for a time to "Brashear City", named after...
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Pennsylvania, on February 18, 1862, the son of Pauline (née Farabaugh) and John Anthony Schwab. All four of his grandparents were Roman Catholic immigrants...
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discovered in 2015 in a time capsule left by scientific instrument maker John Brashear. A much-altered facility appears in later photos, including several...
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equipped with a 16.2-inch (41 cm) telescope produced by the famous John Brashear of Pennsylvania. The German equatorial mount was designed and fabricated...
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Slint (redirect from Todd Brashear)
(guitar, vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums, vocals), Todd Brashear (bassist on Spiderland), and Ethan Buckler (bassist on Tweez). Though little...
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Brashear High School is a large, urban, magnet, public school in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Brashear is one...
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copper dome was purchased from Warner & Swasey (with optics produced by John Brashear), and delivered to the university in 1894. Initially the telescope was...
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refractor telescope from American astronomer and instrument builder John Brashear. This instrument, known as the Bruce double-astrograph, with parallel...
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"Hubble's Law". Cornell University. Retrieved 26 November 2013. Huchra, John. "Extragalactic Redshifts". California Institute of Technology. Retrieved...
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry (category John Fritz Medal recipients)
following year his wife died, on March 31, in Havana, Cuba. Sperry died at St. John Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on June 16, 1930, from complications following...
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have been pioneers in such fields as virology (Jonas Salk), astronomy (John Brashear), aviation (Samuel Pierpont Langley), and psychology (Benjamin Spock)...
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George Westinghouse (category John Fritz Medal recipients)
of Nikola Tesla, p. 1713. Citadel. ISBN 9780806535562. Klooster, John W. (2009). John W. Klooster, Icons of Invention: The Makers of the Modern World from...
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Richard von Krafft-Ebing (died 1902), German sexologist. November 24 – John Brashear (died 1920), American astronomer. November 29 – James Crichton-Browne...
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made for him by John Brashear. It was installed "on the tin roof of the Naval Observatory." A similar refractor cometseeker by Brashear is in the Naval...
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Church, civil rights activist, Bishop at Wilberforce College in Ohio John Brashear (1840–1920), astronomer and builder of scientific instruments Thomas...
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Mary Katharine Brandegee, American botanist (born 1844). April 8 – John Brashear, American astronomer (born 1840). April 9 – Moritz Cantor, German historian...
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(1912–1913) William F. M. Goss (1913–1914) James Hartness (1914–1915) John Brashear (1915–1916) David S. Jacobus (1916–1917) Ira N. Hollis (1917–1918) Charles...
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1848) April 1 – Walter Simon, German philanthropist (b. 1857) April 8 John Brashear, American astronomer (b. 1840) Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer...
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education. He underwrote the building of the Allegheny Observatory for John Brashear, considered at the time one of the ten best in the world. In 1841, William...
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