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Star Trek Technical Manuals are a number of both official and fan-produced works detailing the technology of the fictional Star Trek universe; most pertain to starship design, though others target equipment used in the various Star Trek television series and films.
The expedition ship RRS Discovery in the Antarctic alongside the Great Ice Barrier, now known as the Ross Ice Shelf. The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1843).
In 1901, Koettlitz volunteered for Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, as physician and botanist. [1] Koettlitz played a key role in the provisioning of the expedition. He was a firm supporter of the view that eating fresh meat was the best way to prevent and treat scurvy.
Left to right: Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting after first reaching the South Pole on 16 December 1911. The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians ...
In 1913, with the Terra Nova expedition over, it was left well supplied with stores in the way of food and oil, and a certain amount of coal. The hut was reused from 1915 to 1917 by several of Shackleton's Ross Sea party after the Aurora , which was to have been the permanent winter quarters, broke adrift in May 1915, and went north with the ...
Riefler clock, NIST museum, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. 54 inches (134 cm) tall. This clock served as the first US time standard, from 1904 to 1929. Clemens Riefler precision regulator clocks achieved accuracies of 10 milliseconds per day, [5] [6] and were guaranteed to be within 30 milliseconds. [7]
Soundings Taken During the Discovery Investigations, 1932–39 H F P Herdman M.Sc. September 1948 pp. 107–112. Plate XXXII On the Reproductive Organs of Holozoa Cylindrica Lesson Dr A Arnback Christie-Linde March 1949 pp. 143–280. Plates XXXIV - XXXVII Discovery Investigations Station List RRS William Scoresby 1931 - 1938 September 1949
On 17 February 1901, his appointment as third officer to the expedition's ship Discovery was confirmed; on 4 June he was commissioned into the Royal Navy, with the rank of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. [24] [25] Although officially on leave from Union-Castle, this was in fact the end of Shackleton's Merchant Navy service. [23]