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  2. Ritchey–Chrétien telescope - Wikipedia

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    George Willis Ritchey's original 24-inch (0.6 m) reflecting telescope with a parabolic mirror and two foci: Newtonian and Cassegrain. Part of the Smithsonian's collection, it has been on loan to the Chabot Space and Science Center since 2004.

  3. Photometer - Wikipedia

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    Ritchie's photometer. Ritchie's photometer depends upon equal illumination of surfaces. It consists of a box (a,b) six or eight inches long, and one in width and depth. In the middle, a wedge of wood (f,e,g) was angled upwards and covered with white paper. The user's eye looked through a tube (d) at the top of a box.

  4. Exploded-view drawing - Wikipedia

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    An exploded-view drawing is a diagram, picture, schematic or technical drawing of an object, that shows the relationship or order of assembly of various parts. [1]It shows the components of an object slightly separated by distance, or suspended in surrounding space in the case of a three-dimensional exploded diagram.

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  6. Edward Samuel Ritchie - Wikipedia

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    Ritchie was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on August 18, 1814, the son of John and Elizabeth Eliot Ritchie. As a young child Ritchie displayed a great aptitude for both arts and mechanical sciences. After working as an amateur sculptor, he founded a business in 1850 with N.B. Chamberlain to manufacture mechanical and electrical instruments.

  7. Surface plasmon - Wikipedia

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    The existence of surface plasmons was first predicted in 1957 by Rufus Ritchie. [1] In the following two decades, surface plasmons were extensively studied by many scientists, the foremost of whom were T. Turbadar in the 1950s and 1960s, and E. N. Economou, Heinz Raether, E. Kretschmann, and A. Otto in the 1960s and 1970s.

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    By Leah Douglas and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -California's public health department reported a possible case of bird flu in a child with mild respiratory symptoms on Tuesday, but said there was ...

  9. Steam locomotive components - Wikipedia

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    The diagram, which is not to scale, is a composite of various designs in the late steam era. Some components shown are not the same as, or are not present, on some locomotives – for example, on smaller or articulated types. Conversely, some locomotives have components not listed here.