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    Paul Renno Heyl (1872 in Philadelphia – 22 October 1961) was an American inventor, physicist, and author. Born in Philadelphia, Heyl earned his PhD in...
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  • Charles W. Heyl (1857-1936), American politician Jeremy S. Heyl, Canadian astronomer Paul R. Heyl (1872–1961), American physicist Willy Kaiser-Heyl (1876–1953)...
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    value of G = 6.66×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2 with a relative uncertainty of 0.2%. Paul R. Heyl (1930) published the value of 6.670(5)×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2 (relative uncertainty...
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    patented by Donald M. Bliss in 1912 and further refined in the 1920s by Paul R. Heyl and Lyman James Briggs of the United States National Bureau of Standards...
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    toy spring "Typewriter Maintenance". Shigley, Joseph E.; Mischke, Charles R.; Budynas, Richard G. (2003), Mechanical Engineering Design, New York: McGraw...
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    also retained an interest in navigational devices, and with Paul R. Heyl invented the Heyl–Briggs earth inductor compass. The compass used a spinning electric...
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    Brodie 1836 James P. Espy 1864 Pliny Earle Chase 1887 Lewis M. Haupt 1922 Paul R. Heyl and Lyman James Briggs 1952 James Gilbert Baker 1953 Philip Van Horn...
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  • (1943) Fred Herman (1943) Garnett Hewitt (1981) William Heyen (1974–1981) Paul R. Heyl (1933) Earle Hill (1972) Howard Hillman (1975–1981) Helen Hinckley (1946)...
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    Gaithersburg, Maryland. This clock was purchased in 1929 and used in physicist Paul R. Heyl's measurement of the gravitational constant. On the left is the primary...
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    Carbon star (redirect from Type-R star)
    doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.00101-7. ISBN 978-0-08-098300-4. Ripoche, Paul; Heyl, Jeremy; Parada, Javiera; Richer, Harvey (January 2020). "Carbon stars...
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