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Longitude Act

Known as: Longitude Act 1714 
The Longitude Act was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in July 1714 at the end of the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board… 
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2019
2019
Machine learning predicts home prices
In 1714, the British Parliament passed the Longitude Act, which offered serious money to anyone who could devise a practical… 
2017
2017
Avaliação da uniformidade de um sistema de irrigação por gotejamento.
RESUMO: Um sistema de irrigação eficiente, aliado ao manejo adequado, pode garantir o suprimento apropriado de água a cultura… 
2015
2015
Ships, Clocks & Stars: the quest for impact
Public engagment with science and technology; Public understanding of science and technology; Science centres and museums 
2010
2010
Insects Associated to Heliconia spp. Inflorescences Used as Ornamental Plants
The exotic and colored inflorescence and green foliage of most Heliconia species are characteristics that permited the ornamental… 
2009
2009
Quantitative and molecular genetics of juvenile wood traits in radiata and slash/Caribbean pines.
The Juvenile Wood Initiative (JWI) project has been running successfully since July 2003 under a Research Agreement with FWPA and… 
2008
2008
Longitude Chaise Lounge
  • M. Lin
  • 2008
  • Corpus ID: 109166283
Knoll Furniture commissioned a line of furniture : :the Maya Lin Collection Materials: Longitude chaise longue by Maya Lin with… 
2008
2008
The Shadow of an Author :
E liza Haywood's opening of The Invisible Spy (1755) taunts the reader: "I have observed, that when a new book begins to make a… 
2004
2004
Numerical control electromagnetic loom
The numerical control electromagnetism weave machine is a new weave machine whose function parts work under numerical control… 
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