James David Forbes
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James David Forbes was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at its U
The grave of James David Forbes, Dean Cemetery
The inscription on James David Forbes's grave
David Milne-Home
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David Milne-Home of Milne Graden FRSE FGS PGSE LLD was a Scottish advocate, geologist and meteorologist. He was the founder of the Scottish Meteorological Society in 1855, and served as its chairman.
James David Forbes
…methods for earthquakes. The outcome of this was the production of one of the first modern seismometers by Forbes, first presented in a report by David Milne-Home in 1842. This seismometer was an inverted pendulum, which recorded the measurements of seismic activity through the use of a pencil placed on paper…
David Milne-Home
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10 York Place, Edinburgh
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