Stevens, Major-General Sir Jack (Edwin Stawell), (7 Sept. 1896–20 May 1969), Director: Mt Isa Mines Limited; Commonwealth Industrial Gases; Development Underwriting Ltd (Chm.); Custom Credit Corporation Ltd; Advance Industries Ltd; New South Wales Board of Trustees Executors and Agency Company Ltd; NSW Board, National Bank; Chairman, Brit. Automotive Industries Pty. Ltd

In this communication, laid before the Royal Society at the request of Sir Thomas Brisbane, Captain Kater gives the results of experiments made by Sir Thomas Brisbane and Mr. Dunlop, at Paramatta, in New South Wales; and by Sir Thomas Brisbane, Captain Kater, and Mr. Rumker, in Portland Place, London, with an invariable pendulum belonging to the Board of Longitude. The number of vibrations made by this pendulum in a mean solar day at London, in latitude 51° 31' 8" 4, at the temperature of 60°, and reduced to a vacuum, was found to be 86090·17: at Paramatta, in latitude 33° 48' 43'' S., by Sir Thomas Brisbane’s experiments 86021·59; and by those of Mr. Dunlop 86022·21.

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Zeal, Hon. Sir William Austin, (5 Dec. 1830–11 March 1912), Trustee of the Melbourne Public Library; Territorial Magistrate for New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland; Director National Bank, Melbourne Gas Company, Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., and Australian Mutual Provident Society

10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u192541 ◽

2007 ◽

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XXII. An account of experiments made with an invariable pendulum at New South Wales, by Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, K. C. B. F. R. S. Communicated by Captain Henry Kater, F. R. S. in a letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. Pres. R. S

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rstl.1823.0024 ◽

1823 ◽

Vol 113 ◽

pp. 308-325 ◽

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Sir, In compliance with the request of Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane, I have the honour to lay before the Royal Society the results which I have deduced from his experiments, made with an invariable pendulum at London and at Paramatta. The pendulum employed belongs to the Board of Longitude, and is of the same construction as that which I used at certain stations of the Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain. Before Sir Thomas Brisbane's departure, I observed the following series of coincidences at Mr. Browne's house in Portland Place, London, in order to determine the number of vibrations made by this pendulum in twenty-four hours.

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