Proceedings of the ninth International Congress of Photogrammetry: Executive & formal meetings, resolutions etc.

Brown, R. Ll.

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Title:: Proceedings of the ninth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Sub title:: London, 1960

Year of publication:: 1961

Place of publication:: Amsterdam

Publisher of the original:: Argus

Identifier (digital):: 1049114248

Language:: English

Other Title:: Paralleltitel: Actes du neuvième Congrès International de Photogrammétrie

Editor:: Brown, R. Ll.

Corporations:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

Adapter:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

Founder of work:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

Other corporate:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

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Persistent identifier:: 1049115422

Title:: Executive & formal meetings, resolutions etc.

Sub title:: London, 1960

Scope:: VIII, 144 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1961

Place of publication:: Amsterdam

Publisher of the original:: Argus

Identifier (digital):: 1049115422

Signature of the source:: ZS 312(13,1)

Language:: French

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: Brown, R. Ll.

Corporations:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

Adapter:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

Founder of work:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

Other corporate:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 9., 1960, London

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2019

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: TECHNICAL EXHIBITION

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21 TECHNICAL EXHIBITION Opened by the Rt Hon The Lord Brabazon of Tara on Tuesday, 6th September, 1960 The President: Ladies and Gentlemen, we are greatly privileged to have with us this afternoon the Right Honourable The Lord Brabazon of Tara, and I am delighted to welcome him on your behalf. It is a pleasant duty for me to introduce him to you, though indeed he needs very little introduction to anybody. Lord Brabazon’s connexions with aviation date back to the first decade of this century. In 1909 he became a licenced flying pilot; he held then, and still holds, the first licenced pilot’s certificate ever issued in this country. Since then his activities in aviation have not only been of great importance and interest but they have been ex tremely numerous. Were I to attempt to relate even a small part of them to you 1 might indeed fascinate you, but I should defeat the object of this afternoon’s gathering, which is to listen to him. However, I must just add one more word: his association with air photography, and with photogrammetry also, dates back a very long way. As long ago as World War I a party of three men - a Mr Campbell, a press photographer and a probationary second lieutenant, a Mr Victor Laws whom we all know, then a sergeant, and a Mr Moore-Brabazon of the Reserve of Officers, in charge of this party — organ ized and put into action a scheme for using air photography on the Western Front. Two of them are here today. 1 have great pleasure in inviting Lord Brabazon to address us and declare open our exhibition of instruments. The Rt Hon The Lord Brabazon of Tara: General Brown, Ladies and Gentle men, I deem it a very great honour to have been asked to open this International Ex hibition. It is the first of its kind that we have held in this country, and you know that all things international are basically good. I have no doubt that those of you who are showing apparatus and those of you who are giving papers and are interested in the subject will, for the first day or two, look at your rivals from other countries with suspicion and mistrust, but at the end of a fortnight I hope you will be close friends talking about the things that interest you all, and that that friendship will surpass national barriers and remain with you all your lives. This is an exhibition of photogrammetry; having all the talent in the world assembled in London, do you think you could get together and invent a better name? It is a frightful word and unless you are really in the racket you do not know what it is all about — measurement by photography. I was delighted to be asked here by my very dear old friend, Victor Laws, be cause we have known each other for a long time, since the First World War. We were intensely wrapped up together then over aerial photography. Unlike myself he kept on the narrow path and has been interested in it ever since. I must confess that I degenerat ed and became a Member of Parliament for twenty years during which time I did not keep up with this great secret. As a consequence, when I am shown around a remark able exhibition of apparatus as I was this morning, although I try to look intelligent and wise most of the apparatus is pure Greek to me. Victor Laws, on the other hand, under stands it all. I fully understand that 1 am not addressing you here on the basis of merit but purely on the basis of longevity. I have succeeded in avoiding the traffic of London and in avoiding the various bugs which destroy us even more lethally now; I have avoided them for no less than seventy-five years which I consider, from my point of view, to be a very remarkably feat. When I look round this room I am struck by the fact that I

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