1. John Milne was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.
16 Facts About John Milne
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John Milne was educated at King's College London and the Royal School of Mines.
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In December 1873 John Milne accompanied Dr Charles Tilstone Beke on an expedition to determine the true location of Mount Sinai in northwest Arabia.
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John Milne took the opportunity to study the geology of the Sinai Peninsula and passed on a collection of fossils to the British Museum.
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John Milne's instruments permitted him to detect different types of seismic waves, and estimate velocities.
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In June 1895, John Milne was commanded to attend a meeting with His Imperial Majesty Emperor Mutsuhito and following this, returned to England.
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John Milne helped to develop theories on the origin of the Ainu of northern Japan and on the prehistoric racial background of Japan in general.
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John Milne excavated for several years in the Omori shell mound and introduced the concept of the Koro-pok-guru, linked with the Inuit.
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John Milne considered the inhabitants of the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin and southern Kamchatka to be of a different race, but possibly related to the Koro-pok-guru.
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John Milne anticipated the work of scientists who recognised, in excavated materials, different prehistoric cultures for Hokkaido and northeastern Japan.
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John Milne's first cousin William Scoresby Routledge was an anthropologist.
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John Milne was made a professor emeritus of Tokyo Imperial University.
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John Milne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1887 and persuaded the Society to fund 20 earthquake observatories around the world, equipped with his horizontal pendulum seismographs.
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In 1898, Milne published Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements, which came to be regarded as a classic textbook on earthquakes.
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John Milne delivered the Bakerian Lecture to the Royal Society in 1906 entitled Recent Advances in Seismology and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1908.
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John Milne died of Bright's disease on 31 July 1913 and, after a service in St Paul's Church, Newport, was buried in the civic cemetery to the north of the church.