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1857–1900, American astronomer, b. La Salle, Ill. At the age of 21 he went on the Naval Observatory expedition to Colorado to observe the solar ecli...
in metallurgy, any process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Smelting processes vary in detail depending on the nature...
(n ´sm th) (KEY) , 1758–1840, Scottish landscape and portrait painter. His Stirling Castle (National Gall., London) is a good example of his simple...
(m lr d´ ) (KEY) , 1786–1863, Irish genre painter. He began as a drawing master and an illustrator of children’s books. After 1809 he devoted him...
1804–87, American astronomer and maker of astronomical lenses, b. Ashfield, Mass. In 1846 the firm of Alvan Clark & Sons was established at Camb...
(sm ´d r vô) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 63,884), NE Serbia and Montenegro, in Serbia, a port on the Danube River. Its industries include oil refining a...