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Birt (other)
Birt is a surname. Birt may also refer to: * Birt Acres Birt Acres (23 July 1854 – 27 December 1918) was an American and British photographer and film pioneer. Among his contributions to the early film industry are the first working 35 mm camera in Britain (Wales), and ''Birtac'', the firs ... (1854–1918), photographer and film pioneer * Birt (crater), a lunar impact crater named after William Radcliffe Birt * Birt, a member of the flatfish family Scophthalmidae, related to the turbot and brill See also * BIRT (other) * Bert (other) * Burt (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birt
Birt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charlie Birt (born 1942), Canadian politician * Fred Birt (1886–1956), Welsh rugby union player * Jill Birt (), keyboardist in Australian band The Triffids * John Birt (footballer) (born 1937) * John Birt (politician) (1873–1925), Australian politician * John Birt, Baron Birt (born 1944), Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation 1992–2000 * Michael Birt (barrister) (born 1948), lawyer and Bailiff of Jersey in the Channel Islands * Michael Birt (biochemist) (1932–2001), Australian academician * Peter Birt Peter Birt ( – June 1791) was a businessman from Airmyn, Yorkshire, England, who made his fortune from the Aire and Calder Navigation and used part of his wealth to build the mansion named Wenvoe Castle. He became High Sheriff of Glamorgan. Bu ... (c. 1723–1791), English businessman * Suzanne Birt (born 1981), Canadian curler * Travis Birt (born 1981), Australian former cricketer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birt Acres
Birt Acres (23 July 1854 – 27 December 1918) was an American and British photographer and film pioneer. Among his contributions to the early film industry are the first working 35 mm camera in Britain (Wales), and ''Birtac'', the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector. He also directed a number of early silent films. Early life Born in Richmond, Virginia, on 23 July 1854, to English parents. He became an orphan at the age of 14, during the American Civil War and was raised by an aunt. Career Acres invented the first British 35 mm moving picture camera, ''Birtac'' which was the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector; he was also the first travelling newsreel reporter in international film history and the first European film maker who had his films shown in the United States in public performances. He contributed much to the introduction and development of cinematography in all its aspects, from the construction of cameras, projecto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birt (crater)
Birt is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater located in the eastern half of the Mare Nubium and west of the Rupes Recta. It was named after British selenographer William Radcliffe Birt, William R. Birt. Birt is a bowl-shaped formation with a raised rim, slightly intersected along the southeast edge by the much smaller crater Birt A. To the west of Birt, a rille named Rima Birt runs north-northwest in an arc from Birt F to Birt E. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Birt. References * * * * * * * * * * * External links * Impact craters on the Moon {{Craters on the Moon: A–B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scophthalmidae
The Scophthalmidae are a family of flatfish found in the North Atlantic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea.Chanet, B. (2003)Interrelationships of scophthalmid fishes (Pleuronectiformes: Scopththalmidae).''Cybium'' 27(4) 275-86. Fish of this family are known commonly as turbots, taxo''Scophthalmidae''at http://www.eol.org. though this name can refer specifically to '' Scophthalmus maximus'', as well. Some common names found in species of this family are turbots, windowpanes, and brills. Cladistic analysis reveals that this family is a monophyletic group. Of all the scophthalmids, the largest species ('' Scophthalmus maximus'') reaches approximately one meter in length. Some species in the family have been historically fished commercially (predominantly the brill flatfish and the turbot flatfish, ''S.rhombus'' and ''S. maximus'' respectively). Taxonomy The ''Scophthalmidae'' family is composed of two main clades, four genera, and eight species. The four gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BIRT (other)
Birt is a surname. Birt may also refer to: * Birt Acres Birt Acres (23 July 1854 – 27 December 1918) was an American and British photographer and film pioneer. Among his contributions to the early film industry are the first working 35 mm camera in Britain (Wales), and ''Birtac'', the firs ... (1854–1918), photographer and film pioneer * Birt (crater), a lunar impact crater named after William Radcliffe Birt * Birt, a member of the flatfish family Scophthalmidae, related to the turbot and brill See also * BIRT (other) * Bert (other) * Burt (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert (other)
Bert or BERT may refer to: Persons, characters, or animals known as Bert *Bert (name), commonly an abbreviated forename and sometimes a surname *Bert, a character in the poem "Bert the Wombat" by The Wiggles; from their 1992 album Here Comes a Song *Bert (Sesame Street), fictional character on the TV series ''Sesame Street'' *Bert (horse), foaled 1934 * Bert (Mary Poppins), a Cockney chimney sweep in the book series & Disney film ''Mary Poppins'' * Iron Bert (one half of the two yellow diesels 'Arry and Bert), also in ''Thomas and Friends'' Places *Berd, Armenia, also known as Bert *Bert, Allier, a commune in the French of Allier *Bert, West Virginia Electronics & computing *Bit error rate test, a testing method for digital communication circuits *Bit error rate tester, a test equipment used for testing the bit error rate of digital communication circuits *HP Bert, a CPU in certain Hewlett-Packard programmable calculators *BERT (language model) (Bidirectional Encoder Representati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
