Talk:Baden-Powell's unilens

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Georglind in topic The wrong Baden-Powell?

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Works Registered or First Published in the U.S., Published Before 1923 (in all cases): In the public domain due to copyright expiration.[1] In any case I've rebuilt it from scratch (translated from es.wiki) can you remove the two warnings (if OK)? --Mcapdevila (talk) 19:10, 3 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Changed see also to refracting, not reflecting, telescope, which seems more appropriate. Stub Mandrel (talk) 19:55, 20 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

The wrong Baden-Powell?

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I find it somewhat unlikely that the unilens should be the invention of Robert Baden-Powell, and I have not found evidence for this in the provided sources. In the reference newspaper clipping from 1907 (https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn92061685/1907-07-04/ed-1/seq-6/), the inventor is given as Major Baden-Powell, F.R.A.S. This does not fit Robert, since he at the time was Major-General/Lieutenant-General. By 1907 he would also have been extremely busy writing Scouting for Boys. However, the name and title fit Robert's younger brother, Baden Baden-Powell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden_Baden-Powell, who was a Major and a member of the Aeronautical Society. georglind (talk) 20:14, 17 June 2022 (UTC)Reply