John Mackenzie Bacon

John Mackenzie Bacon

John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (19 June 184626 December 1904) was an English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer. He attempted the earliest movie of a solar eclipse, in India in December 1897. Unfortunately, the film was lost. Together with Nevil Maskelyne, he succeeded in North Carolina, USA, in May 1900. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1888.

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title = John Mackenzie Bacon
accessdate = 2007-05-04
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work = Who's Who of Victorian Cinema

*cite web
url = http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1905MNRAS..65..334.
title = Obituary Notice: Fellows:- Bacon, John Mackenzie
accessdate = 2007-05-04
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date = 1805
work = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 65, p.334

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