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David Davidson (1811–1900)
Sir David Davidson (c. 1811 – 18 May 1900) was an army officer in the East India Company in India who worked on improvements to rifle bullets and telescopic sights. He was also a childhood friend and correspondent of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Life and work Davidson was born in Haddington where his father Henry M. Davidson was county Sheriff Clerk. He went to the local school and studied French from John Johnstone. His childhood friends included Jane Welsh Carlyle. In 1827 he moved to India to serve in the Bengal Native Infantry under the East India Company and retired in 1848 with the rank of Major. While stationed in Asirgarh Fort in 1832, he had a telescopic sight attached to a single-barrel rifle made by Samuel Staudenmeyer. The next year he wrote to the ''Bombay Sporting Magazine'' on his experiments with elongated rifle bullets with a fluted centre which he claimed increased their range and stability. He also developed a "air-cane" a walking cane with a rifle barrel and a compre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Davidson 1811-1900
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 32; Cambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
