Talk:William Henry Pickering

Airplanes had been already invented in 1908
Between 1890 and 1897, Clément Ader has build 3 airplanes, Avion I, II and III (from the latin avis who will said bird). They not have fly good hight, but in 1908 the airplane was not a dream, but a reality. --Jean-François Clet (talk) 10:26, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I think the issue there is the wording. I assume Pickering wasn't claiming airplanes hadn't been invented, but that their capability to drop bombs hadn't been yet invented. That ambiguity could be resolve if whoever added that text had included a source.
 * I could be mistaken, but I think the notion of dropping bombs from planes was addressed in one of the pre-WWI disarmament treaties, so the subject wasn't unknown in that time frame. DiffuseGoose (talk) 19:43, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia
The 16:27, 1 November 2010 Yobot version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand a stub.--Wing (talk) 15:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Pickering's Claim of Vegetation on the Moon
Currently this is suported by a reference to a New York Times article. That article, in turn, indicates Pickering published his "findings" in a recent issue of Popular Astronomy. That would seem to be a better reference, if anyone can find it. In books.google I have been able to find a few volumes of Popular Astronomy but not one that includes 1921. DiffuseGoose (talk) 19:37, 27 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Actually, it seems to be in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 81, p.490
 * June 1921. I'm able to read it from a link at https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1921MNRAS..81..490P/abstract . DiffuseGoose (talk) 19:56, 27 June 2024 (UTC)