View of the nilometer mb-code RS-9778 Jimmy Stein

Jimmy Stein

This little cartoon illustrates the perils faced on a daily basis by the brave British policeman as

Plate 12 figure 37 for the paper 'Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars

and the old sidevalve Morris 8 engine (in production since 1935)

Peter Shilton and Keith Weller

View of the nilometer mb-code RS-9778 Jimmy SteinView of the nilometer, Cairo, Egypt, 1802. Nilometers were ancient devices for measuring the annual inundation of the Nile. The annual flooding of the Nile was always vitally important to Egypt as it governed the fertility of the soil and could mean the difference between abundance and starvation. Plate 2 from Views of Egypt by Luigi Mayer.