About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: William Stone, Nicolas Auguste Tissot, Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, Ibn Khordadbeh, Keiiti Aki, John Vidale, Myles Allen, Jakob Sederholm, Al-Muqaddasi, Paul Siple, Jan Esper, Thomas Jamieson, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Robert Erskine, Raymond Jeanloz, Gerard de Jode, Jon Claerbout, Reino Antero Hirvonen, Charles F. Hoffmann, Jan Janssonius, Cleveland Abbe, Jr., Tad Murty, Stephen Leatherman, T. Neil Davis, Harm de Blij, John Cary, Estakhri, Panayotis Varotsos, Alexey Tryoshnikov, Peter Doran, Eldridge M. Moores, Ronald E. Cohen, Alfred C. Redfield, Andreas Cellarius, Mikhail Somov, Alain Manesson Mallet, Alexander Fersman, John Gater, Tim Naish, Malcolm MacLeod, J. Val Klump, Charles Bentley, Anton Friedrich Busching, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Alexander Keith Johnston, Abdul Karim, Masayuki Kikuchi, Yevgeny Tolstikov, Am n R z, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Arthur Louis Day, Visconte Maggiolo, Pavel Senko, Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen, Edme Francois Jomard, Detlef Quadfasel, Fyodor Luzhin, Joe Farman, Hans Robert Scultetus, Aleksandr Dralkin, John G. Anderson, Thomas Richardson, Henrik Johan Walbeck, Erich Obst. Excerpt: William Stone (born December 7, 1952), known as Bill Stone, is an American caver and explorer, known for exploring deep caves, sometimes with remotely operated vehicles. He has participated in over 44 international expeditions, and is President and CEO of Stone Aerospace. Stone was an active caver in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Outing Club while studying for a B.S. in Civil Engineering, awarded in 1974. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Engineering, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland from 1980-2004. While at the institute, Stone established the Construction Metrology and Automation Group. He led the group for seven years, before steppin...
