Francis Beaufort information

Sir Francis Beaufort KCB FRS FRGS FRAS MRIA (/ˈboʊfərt/; 27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer, the creator of the Beaufort cipher...

be another's "soft breeze"—: Beaufort succeeded in standardising a scale. The scale was devised in 1805 by Francis Beaufort (later Rear Admiral), a hydrographer...

Francis Lestock Beaufort (1815–1879), was a son of Sir Francis Beaufort and the author of the Digest of I Criminal Law Procedure in Bengal (1850). Dictionary...

named after Sir Francis Beaufort, a hydrographer. The Mackenzie River, the longest in Canada, empties into the Canadian part of the Beaufort Sea west of Tuktoyaktuk...

Turkish-speaking Orthodox Christian group originally from the area. In 1811–12, Francis Beaufort, then the captain of HMS Fredericksteen in the British Navy, was tasked...

The Beaufort cipher, invented by some Giovanni Sestri in early 18th century but widely attributed to Sir Francis Beaufort, is a substitution cipher similar...

The Beaufort Gyre is one of the two major ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean. It is roughly located north of the Alaskan and Canadian coast. In the past...

Count Francis de Beaufort (1661–1714) was an English-born Dutch mercenary. In 1710 became court chancellor to the prince of Lippe-Detmold. He served in...

distinguished from weather presenters who have only a communication degree. Francis Beaufort, inventor of the wind scale that bears his name. Vilhelm Bjerknes,...

Ysidro Francis Edgeworth – the order of his forenames later reversed – was born in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland, the son of Francis Beaufort Edgeworth...

Honora Sneyd and to Frances Beaufort, older sister of Francis Beaufort of the Royal Navy. Edgeworth and Francis Beaufort installed a semaphore line for...

Cape Beaufort is a cape on the coast of Chukchi Sea in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. Cape Beaufort was named in 1826 for Captain Francis Beaufort...

The highest mountain in the Beaufort Range is Mount Joan at 1,556 m (5,105 ft). The range is named for Sir Francis Beaufort, hydrographer to the Royal...

twinned with the following places: Bobbio, Italy Broccostella, Italy Francis Beaufort, scientist and naval officer Pierce Brosnan, actor Shane Cassells,...

Homer's description of the monster. The site was identified by Sir Francis Beaufort in 1811, as the modern Turkish Yanar or Yanartaş, which was described...

Ross in 1841. Ross named the island for Sir Francis Beaufort, hydrographer to the British Royal Navy. Beaufort Island is the eroded remains of a basaltic...

hygrometer is demonstrated by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. In 1806, Francis Beaufort introduced his system for classifying wind speeds. The April 1960 launch...

has been considered a "hurricane" on the Beaufort scale since it was designed by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort by 1806, and is now classified a Category 1...

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Clonenagh in Ireland. De Beaufort was born in Wessel, Westphalia in 1700. He was the seventh child of Count Francis de Beaufort, court chancellor to the...