Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist)
Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence on visitor admissions, 1849 - 1854
Correspondence on weights and measures, 1829 - 1848
Correspondence regarding a reward granted to the officers of HMS 'Hecla' and HMS 'Griper' for their efforts in searching for a north-west passage, 1820
Including questionnaires completed by the chief officers.
Correspondence with Nautical Almanac Office, 1827 - 1848
Correspondence with scientific bodies, 1836 - 1848
Correspondence with scientific societies, 1857 - 1858
Correspondence with scientific societies, 1859 - 1860
Correspondence with scientific societies, 1860 - 1863
Correspondence with tradesmen, 1859
Correspondence with tradesmen, initials N-W, including letters from opticians; booksellers; stationers; engineers; and instrument makers. The correspondents include C.A.F. Peters and E. Sabine. There is a price list for writing on architecture and engineering; a diagram of the breech end of a telescope; and ten plans from Ransome and Sims of galvanic rings for the polar axis, a holdfast for the Dome, clamps and slow-motion apparatus for the Hour Circle, an observer's chair, etc.
Correspondence with tradesmen, 1860
Correspondence with tradesmen, including letters from bookbinders; booksellers; glass manufacturers; coal merchants; builders; engineers; and instrument makers. The correspondents include C.A.F. Peters and E. Sabine. There is a diagram showing the universal joints on the hand-gear for slow motion of the polar frame on the equatorial instrument at Greenwich, and a notice of the publication of an atlas by Sir H. James.
Correspondence with tradesmen, 1859 - 1861
Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1821 - 1822
Vouchers of John Pond and Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others.
Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1825 - 1826
Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.
Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1825 - 1827
Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.
Dr Thomas Young's Vouchers, 1824 - 1828
Vouchers of Dr Thomas Young for payments to tradesmen and others. Also includes occasional correspondence.
Harton pendulum experiments, 1854 - 1877
Correspondence, letters M-W, regarding pendulum experiments at Harton, featuring, among others, Col. E. Sabine, the Revd R. Sheepshanks, W. Simms and Dr W. Whewell. The volume also includes Airy's hotel bills, E. Dunkin's book of expenses and journal, drawings of one of the pendulums as mounted, a printed copy of a memoir of the Royal Society (with map and diagrams), a lecture by Airy given in the Central Hall of South Shields, and an extract from 'Punch'.
Letter from Edward Sabine [to the Board of Longitude], 1821-03-28
Concerning the claim by Parkinson and Frodsham to be the real makers of the chronometer sent out on Captain Parry's northern expedition.
Letter from Parkinson and Frodsham to Captain Sabine, 1821-03-26
Stating their claim to have made a chronometer sent out with Captain Parry.
Letters from observatories, 1859 - 1861
Meteorological observations and papers, 1837 - 1848
Miscellaneous astronomical papers, 1851 - 1853
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1852
Airy's miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, D.F.J. Arago, F. Beaufort, J. Challis, E.J. Cooper, W.R. Dawes, A. de Morgan, W. Denison, J.F. Encke, J.D. Forbes, R. Grant, J.F.W. Herschel, the Earl of Rosse, E. Sabine, A. Sedgwick, R. Sheepshanks, W.H. Smyth, R. Stephenson, W.S. Stratford, F.E.W.V. Struve, W. Whewell and Lord Wrottesley.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1828 - 1847
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1850
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1857 - 1859
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