Correspondence on galvanic time, 1849 - 1855
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on the communication of time by telegraph to Exeter, Norwich, the Bank of England, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Southampton. The papers include complaints about alleged inaccuracies of the Liverpool Time Ball; a request for a clock for the Greenwich Hospital School Observatory; galvanic regulations of the clocks at the General Post Office and the Athenaeum; and the construction of sympathetic galvanic clocks. The correspondents include C.V. Walker, J.C. Clark, S.H. Northcote, G. Fisher, E. Sabine, J. Phillips, C. Wheatstone and T. Cooke.
Dates
- 1849 - 1855
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
C2/3
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:52:03+00:00
- Bank of England
- Clocks
- Electricity
- Exeter
- Fisher, George, 1794 - 1873 (astronomer)
- Liverpool
- Norwich
- Phillips, John, 1800 - 1874 (geologist)
- Portsmouth
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist)
- Southampton
- Telegraphy
- Time
- Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812 - 1882 (electrical engineer)
- Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802 - 1875 (Knight, developer of telegraphy)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
Repository Details
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