Cincinnati observatory to learn how it became the first public observatory in the western hemisphere. John this is the Cincinnati Observatory Center, situated in the city of cincinnati, approximately six miles east of downtown cincinnati. We call ourselves the birthplace of american astronomy. The founder of the observatory, ormsby mcknight mitchell, was essentially what we call the call sagan of the day. He was the popularizer of astronomy at that particular period. The first observatory of significance in the country and definitely the first public observatory at that time. He was a west point graduate and he was teaching at the Cincinnati College and in 1842 there was a group in town, the society for the promotion of useful knowledge. They offered to mitchell an opportunity to lecture the citizens. He started his lecture in this lecture hall, overflowed that, so they moved it to a chapel that seated 1200 people and does they ended the lecture, they said, why couldnt we, the citizens
By the terms of the release of the prisoner he negotiated, he could go back to baltimore only once the battle was over. So his question is who is going to win this battle . And theres this lull in the battle right now. It gets quiet. This is where the british use five special ships. And i love the names of them. The one was the meteor. The terror. The etna. The h. M. S. Volcano. And the h. M. S. Devastation. That was the shock and awe of 1814. Each one of those ships could fire a 200pound exploding shell two miles. Now, im sure we probably have some folks who fired mortars in their careers in the military. And you know the principle of the mortar, fire and lob the projectile up. These mortars were fixed at a 45degree setting. If you do the math that bomb will go a mile high in the sky before it begins its descent. Imagine you, for some you can probably imagine its easy because you did it in real life, being a young recruit, on the receiving end of a bombardment or fire, and unable to r
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