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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-01-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000250b.htm person Boys Charles Vernon FRS AACR2 15 March 1855 30 March 1944 Place of Birth Wing, Rutland, England Physicist Sir Charles Boys published on integrating mechanisms, quartz fibres, radio- micrometer, heat of moon and stars, constant of gravitation, solid dipleidoscope prisms, gas calorimetry and the speed of lightning.

Born Wing, Rutland, 15 March 1855. Died Andover, England, 30 March 1944. Kt 1935. Educated Royal School of Mines, Cambridge. Invented moving lens lightning camera 1900; designed improved torsion balance 1895; invented radio-micrometer, with which he could measure heat radiation from moon and planets; proved that temperature of Jupiter's surface is less than 100 degrees centigrade; recommended use of quartz fibres (rather than silk) for delicate suspension instruments; designed calorimeter to measure thermal power of coal gas.

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 'Boys, Charles Vernon', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Boys, Charles Vernon Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Charles Vernon Boys - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Charles Vernon Boys - Records MS 041 1894 Handwritten instructions for making quartz fibres, sent by C.V. Boys to Professor Poynting in Birmingham in 1894 [1 item, MS 41]. 1 page