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See also:GLAISHER, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1809-1903) , See also:English meteorologist and aeronaut, was See also:born in See also:London on the 7th of See also:April 1809. After serving for a few years on the See also:Ordnance Survey of See also:Ireland, he acted as an assistant at the See also:Cambridge and See also:Greenwich observatories successively, and when the See also:department of See also:meteorology and See also:magnetism was formed at the latter, he was entrusted with its superintendence,which he continued to exercise for See also:thirty-four years, until his retirement from the public service. In 1845 he published his well-known See also:dew-point tables, which have gone through many See also:editions. In 183o he established the Meteorological Society, acting as its secretary for many years, and in 1866 he assisted in the See also:foundation of the Aeronautical Society of See also:Great See also:Britain. He was appointed a member of the royal See also:commission on, the warming and See also:ventilation of dwellings in 1875, and for twelve years from 188o acted as chairman of the executive See also:committee of the See also:Palestine Exploration Fund. But his name is best known in connexion with the See also:series of See also:balloon ascents which he made between 1862 and 1866, mostly in See also:company with See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Tracey See also:Coxwell. Many of these ascents were arranged by a committee of the See also:British Association, of which he was a member, and were strictly scientific in See also:character, the See also:object being to carry out observations on the temperature, humidity, &c., of the See also:atmosphere at high elevations. In one of them, that which took See also:place at See also:Wolverhampton on the 5th of See also:September 1862, Glaisher and his See also:companion attained the greatest height that had been reached by a balloon carrying passengers. As. no automatically recording See also:instruments were available, and Glaisher was unable to read the See also:barometer at the highest point owing to loss of consciousness, the precise See also:altitude can never be known, but it is estimated at about 7 M. from the See also:earth. He died on the 7th of See also:February 1903 at See also:Croydon.
End of Article: GLAISHER, JAMES (1809-1903)
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