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Glaisher, James
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Meteorologist and founder of the Royal Meteorological Society, born in London; his first observations in meteorology were done as an officer of the Irish Ordnance Survey; in 1836, after service in the Cambridge Observatory, he went to Greenwich, and from 1840 to 1874 he superintended the meteorological department of the Royal Observatory; in connection with atmospheric investigations he made a series of 28 balloon ascents, rising on one occasion to a height of 7 m., the greatest elevation yet attained: b . 1809.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Glaisher, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/glaisher-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Glaisher, James'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/glaisher-james.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
