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    Peter Dollond (2 February 1731 – 2 July 1820) was an English inventor of optical instruments. He was the son of optician John Dollond. He is known for...
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  • Dollond may refer to: Dollond (crater), lunar crater John Dollond (1706–1761), English optician Peter Dollond (1731–1821), English optician, son of John...
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    April 1750, Peter Dollond opened a small optical business in Vine Street, near Hatton Garden in London. He was joined by his father, John Dollond, in 1752...
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    son, Peter Dollond (1731–1820), who in 1750 had started in business as a maker of optical instruments; this business went on to become Dollond & Aitchison...
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    other opticians over the right to make and sell achromatic doublets. Dollond's son Peter invented the apochromat, an improvement on the achromat, in 1763...
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    Abulfeda. It was named after British optician John Dollond. Due west of Dollond is Anděl. Dollond is circular and cone shaped, with a tiny floor at the...
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    by which these steps were suggested to his mind. In 1765 Peter Dollond (son of John Dollond) introduced the triple objective, which consisted of a combination...
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  • with Peter Dollond in 1805, he changed his name by licence to Dollond. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in December, 1819. In 1820 Peter Dollond...
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  • Dolce & Gabbana – Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana Dollond & Aitchison – John and Peter Dollond and James Aitchison Don Bluth Productions – Don Bluth...
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    1832 transit of Mercury. It was equipped with a filar micrometer by Peter Dollond and was used to provide a report of the events as seen through the small...
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  • Henry Coggeshall (1623–1691). 1763: Triple achromatic lens invented by Peter Dollond (1731–1820). 1784: The Atwood machine, for demonstrating the law of...
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    page 183 See his books Astronomiae Pars Optica and Dioptrice Sphaera - Peter Dollond answers Jesse Ramsden - A review of the events of the invention of the...
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    postcards and picture postcards in the UK Triple achromatic lens – Peter Dollond Joint first to discover alpha decay via quantum tunnelling – Ronald...
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    Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Shropshire and Somerset). A telescope by Peter Dollond was fitted in the upper room and Heath detailed a large number of the...
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  • John Dollond (also developed achromats in the 1750s) "Chester Moor Hall". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 25 May 2016. Sphaera – Peter Dollond answers...
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    leading figure in the production of achromatic lenses, even supplying Peter Dollond, a renowned developer of the lenses. He made instruments for various...
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    telescopes historically List of largest optical reflecting telescopes Peter Dollond "Original mirror for William Herschel's 40 foot telescope, 1785". Science...
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    for use at sea. For ‘Vostok’ they bought sextants by Troughton and Peter Dollond; officers bought some of the instruments with their own money. Thermometers...
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    Lind's 2-foot refracting telescope made by Jesse Ramsden with a lens by Peter Dollond and mounting by John Miller. Used by Lind to view the 1769 transit of...
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  • the universe, Rathbone Books Limited, 1962, LCCN 62-14108 J. A. B. "Peter Dollond answers Jesse Ramsden". Sphaera 8. Museum of the History of Science...
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    Encyclopædia Metropolitana. In collaboration (1827–1832) with optician George Dollond, Barlow built an achromatic lens that utilized liquid carbon disulfide...
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  • Peter Coveney Peter D. Jarvis Peter Debye Peter Demos Peter Dollond Peter Edwards (chemist) Peter Fowler (physicist) Peter Franken Peter Freund Peter...
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  • Aberdeen, and this was completed in October 1781, including a telescope by Peter Dollond at the recommendation of Nevil Maskelyne the Astronomer Royal. The observatory...
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    who previously held the license for menswear. On April 28, 2023, designer Peter Hawkings succeeded Ford as creative director. Hawking's first collection...
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    and observing the moons of Jupiter. Aerial telescope Edward Troughton Peter Dollond Great refractors List of largest optical telescopes in the 18th century...
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  • biggots." He had a private observatory with a triplet telescope by Peter Dollond. He was buried at Chislehurst. He achieved some distinction as an astronomer...
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  • Waddington (1754?-1824), vicar of Tuxford and Anne Dollond, youngest daughter of the optician Peter Dollond. He was educated at Charterhouse School from 1808...
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    larger Dollond B. The interior floor is level and is crossed by a crater chain and a slender cleft at the west end. This crater was designated Dollond C before...
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    television (2000-2010). He has also voiced John West Foods, Guinness, Dollond and Aitchison, Britvic AME, William and Mary television series, Murphys...
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  • Debenhams (was a launch member, however membership ended on 15 February 2008) Dollond & Aitchison ebookers (membership ended on 1 June 2009) EDF Energy (stopped...
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