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Robin stars in British victory

... pupil of RBAI — was shooting for his side at Ottawa where they defeated Canadian Cadet Force by 1,118 to 1,111 to win the Michael Faraday Trophy. Top scorers were: 1 Robin Guthrie, 146; 2 Simon Belither (Uppingham School) 143; 3 Stephen Wilson (Oakham School) ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1976
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Faraday

... engineering, and it unravels the technical mysteries of television. The lecture was instituted in 1924 to commemorate Michael Faraday, the British physicist who, in 1831, discovered electro-magnetic induction. Tickets for the lecture are free and are available ...

Published: Tuesday 04 May 1976
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

similar work In bßritain. nt realiced how nset

... directed beam of light could be and, in London, he attende« lectures given he Royal or W. T, Institution by Pro Brand and Michael Faraday, one of whom mentioned the brilliant luminosity of lime when incandescent. Lieutenant Drummond decided to use ‘lime-light” ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1965
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Special day

... William IV was crowned; the British Association for the Advancement of Science was founded; the first dynamo was made by Michael Faraday, and the “new” London Bridge was opened. On February 8 of that year, at a meeting in London, a “Society for the due Observance ...

Published: Thursday 29 January 1981
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dickens of a note

... instead of the Duke of Wellington. A year later it was the £2o’s turn with William Shakespeare giving way to inventor Michael Faraday. A redesigned £5O will be issued at the end of 1993 with architect Sir Christopher Wren being replaced by Sir John Houblon ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1992
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

History traced

... development of the automatic exchange, and the use of cables to replace overhead wires. A tribute was made to the work of Michael Faraday. The lecture ended with a documentary film which traced a telephone call from Birmingham to New York, giving a detailed ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1955
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IMPROVEMENT

... M‘Cracken, chairman of the Centre, who presided, said the idea of the Faraday lecture was to commemorate the memory of Michael Faraday, who in his lifetime was responsible for many of the amazing discoveries and inventions which played so prominent a part ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1952
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IER’S POETRY

... once more “Involved In Jiumanlty.” J. C. 18 RECEIVED *• Science Fiction Storlei.** edited by Edmund Crispin. 16s net. *' Michael Faraday.’* by James Kendall. D.Sc., LL.D.. F.R.S. 12s 8d net. •' Death and the Night Watches,” by Vicars Ball. 10s 6d net. The ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1955
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

rivets Russell

... Favourite Thin mm Among the Prime Minister's other Alevour'itm were mfls - “At my age, they lift the face”; scientist Michael Faraday — whose discoveries she used in everg;:lay electronics; the Taj Mahal and Britain in the spring. S Mrs Thatcher said she ...

Published: Monday 27 July 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WELFARE CLINIC

... succession to Mr. J. H. Oswald, who had resigned from the Council. The anaesthetic properties of ether were discovered Michael Faraday In 1818. Nineteen years before that, another British chemist, Humphry Davy, anaesthetized himself with nitrous oxide, ...

Published: Tuesday 07 March 1950
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Target sights seton Canada

... drawn from schools in Gt Britain and Northern Ireland and will compete against Canadian schools in Canada in the annual Michael Faraday match. Ken McKay of Belfast Royal Academy, who featured strongly in the Open Mee(i:g prize list, has been selected as ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1978
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUBLIN CHOIR IN PARIS

... wartime discoveries by 1.C.1. research chemists. They are based on benzene hexachloride (BHC), a compound first prepared by Michael Faraday as far back as 1825, which can exist in four forms known as the alpha, beta, gamma and delta ** isomers each having the ...

Published: Monday 16 October 1950
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 279 | Page: 5 | Tags: none