The mercury-in-glass or mercury thermometer was invented by physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in Amsterdam (1714).
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John Oldmixon, The Muses Mercury; or, The Monthly Miscellany, a periodical published monthly from January of this year to January 1708
They use the camera to search for a hypothetical group of asteroids (Vulcanoids) between the orbit of Mercury and the Sun that are so elusive and hard to see that scientists aren't sure they exist.
Kazarsky was the captain of brig Mercury and became famous after the victory in the battle against two Turkish ships of the line.
The solar system, showing the Sun and the planets in the order of their position from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
In the new Square Emile-Chautemps at Le Sentier, Paris IIIème, among the sculptural figures enhancing two oval pools under the general artistic direction of Gabriel Davioud, Ottin was entrusted with seated bronze figures of Mercury and Music.
Geologic evidence for the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of Mercury is less complete than for the Moon and Mars, for which orbiting spacecraft and landers have provided total or near-total coverage and high-resolution images.
BepiColombo, a European space mission to Mercury, named after the scientist
His orchestra remained a major touring attraction through the late 1940s and early 1950s, and continued to record in the jump blues style with some success on record on the Mercury label like "Hittin' on Me" and "I'm Just Your Fool".
While Pee Shy had released two albums on Mercury Records, Wheeler has since referred to her experience with the major label as "Mercury poisoning," and the Sisters have recorded and released their music independently.
Marcel Dassault, founder and owner of Dassault, decided to name the aircraft Mercure (French for Mercury).
In a study by Howard Frumkin et al., this sort of test was shown to not reliably provide an indication of past chronic mercury exposure, something it was often used for.
In 1958, McAlpine was the first to suggest that the Minamata symptoms resembled those of organic mercury poisoning.
Electribal Memories (Mercury/PolyGram Records) 1990 UK #26 - reissued as The Best of Electribe 101 featuring Billie Ray Martin in 2002.
The last occultation by a planet took place on July 27, 1910, by Venus, and the next to last on July 11, 1837, by Mercury.
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Jupiter and Mercury: An A to Z by Paul Wright, published by Flare Publications, 2006 ISBN 978-1-903353-00-4
After graduation from Harvard, he was a cofounder of The Richmond Mercury, a short-lived alternative weekly whose alumni include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Frank Rich and Glenn Frankel.
A major-label deal with Phonogram/Mercury followed, with the EP No Free Lunch and the album The Killer Inside Me, produced by Jim Dickinson at Ardent Studios in Memphis.
Harold Johns (artist), cartoonist, assistant to Frank Hampson on Dan Dare (British science fiction comic hero) and largely drew the story Marooned on Mercury
The house system is known as a "Mini Community" and each house is named after planets of the Solar System: Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus, each of which has its own Head of Mini Community, Mentor Team, logo and coloured tie.
In 1962, Green sold Mercury to Consolidated Electronics Industries Corporation (Conelco) a U.S. Affiliate of Dutch electronics giant Philips of the Netherlands but he remained Mercury Records' President.
In February–March 2009, Harries played Guy Jones in Alan Ayckbourn's comedy A Chorus of Disapproval at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and the Colchester Mercury Theatre, alongside Harry Secombe's daughter, Katy.
Viktor Kalashnikov and Marina Kalashnikova - journalists who claim to have been poisoned with mercury by the Russian authorities
A monument to the four gods depicting Juno, Minerva, Mercury and Hercules, possibly once the base of a Jupiter Column, was discovered on the heights of Schoenberg at the point where two Roman roads once crossed.
Issued on the Mercury Records label with the catalogue number Mercury 4127, this single did not chart.
Her most recent album, 'Rudely Interrupted' is a collaboration with Anthony Haden-Guest and was released in New York on Nov 7, 2012 at the Mercury Lounge.
The MacBook Air contains no BFRs and PVC wiring, meets Energy Star Version 5.0 requirements, has a recyclable enclosure, and is rated EPEAT Gold; its display is made from arsenic-free glass and does not contain mercury.
To welcome the couple back to Parma, Mercury and Mars, with music by Claudio Monteverdi and text Claudio Achillini was performed in the Teatro Farnese.
Mercury-Redstone 1A, a sub-orbital test of the Redstone rocket and Mercury spacecraft
The Mercury Seven, first class of US astronauts, seven, selected for Project Mercury, Astronaut Group 1
Harry Eckler of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame was one of the owners of the Mercury Night club along with Joe Krol of the Football Hall of Fame and Sam Luftspring of the Boxing Hall of Fame.
The Mercury Kitten (also known as the Aerial Kitten) was an American three-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by Mercury Aircraft Inc. in the late 1920s.
Viewers of the 1968-1980 CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O may recall Jack Lord's character frequently squealing tires throughout Honolulu in a triple-black 1968 Mercury Park Lane Brougham 4-door hardtop.
Mercury Publications (aka Mercury Press) was a magazine publishing company, owned and operated by Lawrence E. Spivak, which mainly published genre fiction in digest-sized formats.
Mercury transporter (MerF) is a transmembrane bacterial transporter of mercury ions.
NASA's Owen Maynard, who was involved in Mercury systems engineering, led the recovery of the MA-1 capsule from the sea-floor (in which he performed a 30-foot free-dive to find one particular missing component of the capsule).
B.F. Goodrich would only be used after Mercury for the production of the landing gear tires for the Space Shuttle, but this has since been done by Michelin.
Renowned anti-Copernican adherents of the Capellan planetary model included Francis Bacon, inter alia, and this model appealed to those who accepted Ptolemy's purely geocentric model was refuted by the phases of Venus, but were unpersuaded by Tychonic arguments that Mars, Jupiter and Saturn also orbited the Sun in addition to Mercury and Venus.
The music video was directed by Russell Mulcahy and was shot on the Silvercup rooftop stage used for the film, featuring a sword fight between Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Freddie Mercury (Freddie wielding his trademark bottomless mic stand instead of a sword) intercut with scenes from the movie.
1974: The rivalry between Richard Petty in the STP Dodge and David Pearson and the Purolator Mercury had begun intensifying in 1973 and reached a new level in 1974 as Petty won the Daytona 500 and Carolina 500 while Pearson had stormed to win the Rebel 450, Winston 500, and World 600.
Other plans for a music video, including an animation by Michael Mouris and a video featuring model Sasha Pivovarova, were considered but never received a greenlight from Mercury Records.
This directive bans from the market new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed to levels of lead, cadmium, mercury hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated biphenyl Ether (PBDE) flame retardants.
The relative positions of five planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury) were shown, as were the moon's phases and the position of the Sun in the zodiac.
Sutshekhar Rasa as per its preparation methods contains "purified" mineral compounds like Swarna Makshik (Chalcopyrite), Shankh (conch shell) and heavy metals like Swarna (Gold), Tamra (Copper), Parad (Mercury) and Gandhak (Sulfur) along with other herbs.
The Mercury Wonder Show was a 1943 magic-and-variety stage show by the Mercury Theatre, produced by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, directed by Welles, and starring Welles, Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and Rita Hayworth (with Hayworth's part later filled in by Marlene Dietrich).
The production, promotion and release of the film is significantly tied to commercial promotion; "The Neverything" was made under the provision of Mercury, a division of Ford Motor Company, and Mercury is using its broadcast of the "webisodes" as an alternative to traditional marketing channels.
On an interesting side note, Stevens left Mercury in 1965 and signed with Monument Records, where he re-recorded "Funny Man," "Harry the Hairy Ape" and his previous hit "Ahab the Arab."
Offline has put on well known acts such as Mercury Prize nominees The Portico Quartet, author Howard Marks, comedians Rob Newman, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Robin Ince, Richard Herring and new wave legend Tom Robinson, with all acts being paid two pints of beer.
In the UK the pre-nationalisation railway companies standardised around systems operating on a vacuum of 21 inches of mercury (533.4 Torr), with the exception of the Great Western Railway, which used 25 inches of mercury (635 Torr).