Name John Bacon | Role Astronomer | |
Died December 26, 1904, Cold Ash, United Kingdom Books The dominion of the air, The Dominion of the Air, By Land and Sky | ||
John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (19 June 1846 – 26 December 1904) was an English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1888. He and his daughter Gertrude Bacon made some of the earliest attempts to film a total solar eclipse. Their first expedition, to Vadso, Lapland (1896), was unsuccessful due to cloudy weather. They went home and planned another, this time to Buxar, India (Dec 1897-1898). They succeeded in filming the eclipse, but unfortunately the film has been lost. A third attempt with Nevil Maskelyne in Wadesborough, North Carolina (May 1900) was also successful.
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