The SIS Bulletin: Current Issue

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Bulletin 112

Appropriate material wil be referenced in Physics Abstracts

Editorial   1
Cover Story Paolo Brenni 2
Current and Future Events   3
Georgian Instruments Patents – Some Ghosts and Spectres D.J. Bryden 4
Originating a Precision Screwthread: Maudslay’s ‘Inclined Knife’
Method, with a Possible Alternative
 Allan Mills 24
Jules Violle’s Actinometer: A simple instrument to deduce the temperature at the surface of the sun Olympe Jouet, Axelle Amon, Dominique Bernard 28
Book Reviews   31
Broadhurst Clarkson & Co., Ltd. of London: Their 1971 Catalogue Stuart Talbot, FRAS 32
Obituary: Jacques Van Damme (1933-2011)  Ad Meskens 37
Beginners’ Page: Simple Sundials John Lawrence 38
A Rare Telescope Objective Lens by Antonio Degola Luís Tirapicos and Gilberto Pereira 40
Letter to the editor   41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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