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and he invented the Cooke's radiometer.
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I bet every one of you has seen a Cooke's radiometer.
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Do you know?
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There's a picture of a Cooke's radiometer,
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to measure the intensity of light by how fast it spins.
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You've seen these things you buy in novelty stores
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that sit there and spin in the light. Okay?
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From 1913 to 1916
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he was President of the Royal Society,
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the same thing that was founded back by Boyle -- remember?
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-- and Robert Hooke and those guys.
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In 1898 he was President of the