| 词条 | Arthur Beverly |
| 释义 |
He was born the son of farmer George Beverly in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and was educated at home and by a local shoemaker in the evenings. He was apprenticed at 14 to an Aberdeen watchmaker and optician, where he made a reputation as a lensmaker. After he made a set of microscope lenses for Dr George Dickie, professor of botany at the University of Aberdeen, Dickie recommended him to other scientists. In 1852 he sailed to Australia and after a spell in the goldfields moved to Melbourne to work as a watchmaker, moving on to New Zealand in 1858, where he set up a business in Dunedin. In the New Zealand Exhibition of 1865 he exhibited a clock, known as the Beverly Clock, which used the daily variation in temperature to wind itself up and a planimeter to measure the area of irregular shapes.[2] He was awarded the Makdougall Brisbane medal of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in 1865 for his planimeter design. He was also very interested in astronomy and built his own 3 inch telescope. He died unmarried in 1907, leaving his money to the University of Otago. References1. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1b20/beverly-arthur|title=Story: Beverly, Arthur|publisher= Te Ara|accessdate= 4 April 2017}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beverly, Arthur}}{{NewZealand-scientist-stub}}2. ^{{DNZB|title=Arthur Beverly|first= Hardwicke Knight and L. E. S.|last= Amon|id=1b20|accessdate=1 December 2011}} 5 : 1822 births|1907 deaths|People from Aberdeenshire|Scottish emigrants to New Zealand|Scottish astronomers |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。