George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is showcasing the world-renowned treasures of its photography, motion picture, and technology collections via the exhibition The Best of Photo & Film: Right Before Your Eyes. More than 200 unique and historically significant artifacts, presented together for the first time, will create this rare experience on view Sept. 13, 2003 through April 11, 2004.
The history of weather vanes is an interesting one which spans many centuries and travels over many countries.
The earliest recorded weather vane honored the Greek god Triton, and adorned the Tower of the Winds in Athens which was built by the astronomer Andronicus in 48 B.C. The figure, which is believed to have been 4 to 8 feet long, had the head and torso of a man and the tail of a fish. To the ancients, the winds had divine powers. In Greece and pre-Christian Rome, weather vanes depicting the gods Boreas, Aeolus, Hermes and Mercury decorated the villas of wealthy landowners.
In the early years of the Nineteenth Century most of the area presently occupied by Leeds City was still characterised by rural tranquility. Miles of rolling pastures and woodland separated Sheepscar from Seacroft Village. Viewed from the fields to the west of Wellington Bridge however, the Leeds of the 1830's presented an industrial panorama dominated by textile mills. The skyline bristled with tall chimneys belching their smoke and attendant lung diseases onto a largely helpless population.
The factory owners and middle classes lived to the west and on the hillsides of Woodhouse or Headingley - protected from the swirling smog by the prevailing westerly winds.
Science Ethics Bibliography
An extensive list of books and articles published before July 1997 that pertain to ethics and misconduct in science. For more recent sources try one of the online search engines.
Ethics in the Physical Sciences: Course Outline and Reference Books (PDF, 68KB)
Material for an ethics course for science majors, by Prof. Linda M. Sweeting, Towson University, lsweeting@towson.edu. Presented at the 14th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Clemson, SC, August 1996. An updated on-line version of the Professional Ethics for Scientists syllabus is also available at http://www.towson.edu/~sweeting/.
From pioneering work in optical technologies, digital switching through to work in advanced software techniques and protocols, BT, through its research and development arm at Adastral Park in Suffolk, has long been recognised as an industry leader in technical innovation in the communication world.
Bell Labs, celebrating more than three-quarters of a century of innovation, is the most famous research and development organization in the world. Bell Labs' mission to Lucent Technologies is two-fold:
Provide fundamental research in scientific fields important to communications, and provide innovations that will lead to new communications products and services, and
Develop leading edge products and services that will keep Lucent at the forefront of communications.
Bell Labs research and development community consists of 16,000 employees in 16 countries.
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