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Coats Observatory was furnished with a wide range of scientific apparatus for observing the night sky and making meteorological records. In 1900 seismic monitoring equipment was installed for recording earthquakes. Coats Observatory was one of the stations across the world which recorded the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Thomas Coats (1809-1883) co-founder of the world-famous J.&P Coats company was a philanthropist and devout member of the Baptist Church.He was committed to the well-being of his town, involved in the restoration of Paisley Abbey, and in funding projects such as the construction of the Coats Observatory and Paisley Fountain Gardens.
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Clarke Observatory: 1897 / 1923 Dunkirk, New York / Alliance, Ohio, US Class of 1951 Observatory: 1997 Poughkeepsie, New York, US Cloudcroft Observatory (defunct) 1962 New Mexico, US Coats Observatory: 1883 Paisley, Scotland, UK Coit Observatory: Boston, Massachusetts, US Collins Observatory: 2003 Corning, New York, US ...
The Museum and Art Galleries were gifted to the town of Paisley by the industrialist Sir Peter Coats in 1871. The building, which also houses Paisley Library and the Coats Observatory , [ 2 ] was designed by Glasgow architect John Honeyman of the firm of Honeyman and Keppie . [ 3 ]
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Mills Observatory: Dundee, Scotland (1951) 25 cm (10") 1871: by T. Cooke & Sons. Training telescope at St. Andrews 1938–1951: Coats Observatory: Paisley, Scotland (1898) 25 cm (10") 1898: by Howard Grubb. Replaced 5" refractor by Thomas Cooke, installed in 1883. Blackett Observatory: Marlborough College Wiltshire, England-25 cm (10") 1860: by ...
Gordon MacMillan Southam Observatory, H.R. Macmillan Space Centre, Vancouver Large Zenith Telescope , University of British Columbia (at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest) (Decommissioned 2014) Trottier Observatory, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby