Maskelyne
Proper noun
Meaning
Maskelyne
A surname.
Phrases with the word
Examples
According to reports by the investigators such as Richard Hodgson and magician John Nevil Maskelyne all the phenomena observed in the Cambridge sittings were the result of trickery.
During Harrison's second trial of his 'Sea watch' (H4) the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne was asked to accompany HMS Tartar and test the Lunar Distances system.
German reconnaissance aircraft photographed the site and the faked damage by Jasper Maskelyne convinced Chapman's German controllers that the attack had been successful.
The new instrument was constructed by Edward Troughton but Maskelyne did not live to see it completed.
ISBN 0-09-947664-9 Wallace was unable to accept that he had replicated their feats utilizing natural methods, and stated that Maskelyne possessed supernatural powers.
Maskelyne attended Westminster School and was still a pupil there when his mother died in 1748.