But it was only with the growth of the electric telegraph network in the 1850s that readings could be collected from a wide area quickly enough to follow the weather as it changed.

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The Sowerby's whale was too big to be taken for a post-mortem examination, but members of the trust's Marine Strandings' Network collected measurements, photographs and skin samples to be analysed by the Institute of Zoology.

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The rot produces methane, which is collected via a network of pipes that penetrate the mountain, and burned to produce electricity.

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Profits collected in the UK and other major markets are funnelled out via a network of subsidiaries, in the form of royalty payments for intangibles such as use of the brand or technology developed inhouse.

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The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.

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