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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
18 June 1852
Source of text:
Hydrographic Office MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Reports quite unsatisfactory results from gun firing sound experiments [see JH's 1852-3-23].
Urges that Thomas Maclear's son be appointed to assist Maclear in the observatory [at the Cape].
Indicates that trials have been made with a 'trumpeted cannon,' and JH is welcome to request further trials to be made at Woolwich Arsenal.
Encloses a letter from Thomas Maclear regarding the resignation of his assistant, George Childe. Would like JH's opinion on the appointment of Maclear's sons to succeed Childe.