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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. After his ...
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 ]
City Observatory, Edinburgh 1818 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 ...
Coats was a collector of Scottish coins, and his collection became the largest and most valuable of its kind. He wanted a catalogue of the specimens, and entrusted the work to Edward Burns, a Scottish numismatist. But in Burns's hands the catalogue swelled into an elaborate Coinage of Scotland (1887). It was unfinished at the time of Coats's death.
Location of Orange County in California This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and ...
In 2003 Guinness Peat took Coats private and in 2015 the business returned to the market as "Coats Group". [10] Coats was fined €110 million by the European Commission in 2007 for participation in cartels with Prym, YKK, and other companies to fix and manipulate the prices of zips and other fasteners, and of the machinery to make them. One of ...
The City Observatory was an astronomical observatory on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is also known as the Calton Hill Observatory . The site is enclosed by a boundary wall with a monument to John Playfair , president of the Edinburgh Astronomical Institution , in the southeast corner.