Sir Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822) was born in Hanover, Germany, and became well known as both a musician and an astronomer. He moved to England in 1757 and, with his sister Caroline, constructed telescopes to survey the night sky.Their work resulted in several catalogs of double stars and nebulae.URPOSE/OBJECTIVE: To perform a version of the experiment of 1800, in which a form of radiation other than visible light was discovered by the famous astronomer Sir Frederick William Herschel.
Windows 7 (codenamed Vienna, formerly Blackcomb) is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft.indows 7 was primarily intended to be an incremental upgrade to the operating system, intending to address Windows Vista's critical reception (such as performance improvements), while maintaining hardware and software compatibility.
How to Check a PC Operating System. An operating system (OS) is software that manages the interaction between hardware resources and the programs or applications you use on a computer. Most PCs have a version of the Windows operating system on them but Macintosh, Linux and UNIX are other popular operating systems. See what operating system edition you are running near the top of the window under System: or Windows edition.. 2  An example is Windows XP Home.. 3  If running an edition of Windows XP, look for x64 Edition to see if you have the 64-bit version. 4  If it is not there, you have the 32-bit version.