| 词条 | Peter Lecount |
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Lieutenant Peter Lecount RN FRAS CE (25 May 1794 - 1852) was a naval officer and a civil engineer with a strong interest in railways. He joined the navy in 1809 and saw active service until going on half-pay in 1827.[1] He was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society while a midshipman. Between 1820 and 1823 he wrote papers and related letters to the Board of Longitude on clocks and chronometers, celestial navigation, particularly using Jupiter's satellites, and a marine chair for observing them.[2] He was the author of "The History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham";[3] "A Practical Treatise on Railways, explaining their construction and management", originally published as Railways in the seventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; "An Examination of Professor Barlow's reports on iron rails, etc." 1836. References1. ^{{cite wikisource |first=William Richard|last=O'Byrne|chapter=Lecount, Peter|title=A Naval Biographical Dictionary|year=1849|publisher=John Murray}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lecount, Peter}}2. ^{{cite web|last1=Lecount|first1=Peter|title=Papers of the Board of Longitude|url=http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?keyword=Lecount,%20Peter,%201794-1852|accessdate=23 March 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Lecount|first1=Peter|title=The History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham|url=http://gerald-massey.org.uk/Railway/c14_Lecount.htm|accessdate=23 March 2015}} 4 : English civil engineers|Royal Navy officers|19th-century British engineers|19th-century Royal Navy personnel |
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