Seeing in the Dark – Christmas Lectures with RV Jones

How to keep an eye on intruders in total darkness? RV Jones gets a helping hand from an infrared camera.
Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1981/from-magna-carta-to-microchip/measurement-and-navigation-in-war?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

RV Jones gave the 1981 Christmas Lectures “From Magna Carta to Microchip” which explores what measurement is, the principles by which measurements can be made, and why their applications have been of so much importance in the advance of science and in the development of technology

In his fifth lecture, RV Jones looks investigates that both in peace and in war men need to know where they are on the surface of the earth, and – nowadays – in space..

Watch the full series: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1981/from-magna-carta-to-microchip?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

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