Drawer 2 PC 2: RGO 101
Container
Contains 11 Results:
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'Royal Observatory Greenwich Plan No.15 Horizontal Plan nearly at the level of the ground floor of the Dwelling House, shewing the course of the gas pipes and galvanic wires about that level, September 1961', September 1861
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/13
Scope and Contents
Plan in black and red ink on linen paper, with details in blue and yellow wash; text in black ink with pencil annotation.
Dates:
September 1861
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bradley's Zenith Sector: draft and final prints, c.1866
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/15
Scope and Contents
Original drawings and prints for the publication 'Verification and extension of La Caille's Arc of Meridian at the Cape of Good Hope' by Thomas Maclear, 1866. Many of the prints are heavily annotated. Bradley's Zenith Sector was sent to the Cape Observatory in May 1837 for the verification and extension of La Caille's Arc of Meridian at the Cape of Good Hope. It was returned to Greenwich in 1850.
Dates:
c.1866
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Spectroscopes, RO 1/2 prism, Dr Huggins' [drawing 2, untitled], undated [c.1877]
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/16/2
Scope and Contents
Drawing of the spectroscope in black ink on drafting linen. Most of the page is blank.
Dates:
undated [c.1877]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Royal Observatory Greenwich Proposed New Library, undated [c.1879]
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/17
Scope and Contents
Drawing in black ink on tracing paper showing section, ground plan and plan at gallery. [Plans were drawn up by the Clerk of Works in 1879. The building was completed in 1882 but only used until 1899, when the whole of the Observatory’s library was moved to a new home in the east, north and west wings in the basement of the New Physical Building, while the photographic plates together with the spare stock of the Observatory’s numerous publications (that had until then had been stored in a...
Dates:
undated [c.1879]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Plans of the New Physical Observatory and Transit Building, 1880 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/19
Scope and Contents
Includes three drawings of the New Physical Observatory and one of the Transit Building. Originally known as the New Physical Building or New Physical Observatory, the South Building was constructed between 1891 and 1899. It incorporates the dome of a short-lived building constructed at the Observatory in the early 1880s to hold the Lassell telescope.The Transit Pavillion was built in the courtyard in 1891 to house a small reversible transit instrument. It was...
Dates:
1880 - 1893
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Drawing of Lassell 30ft Dome and Equatorial [1], undated [c.1883-1884]
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/20/1
Scope and Contents
Section drawing of the Lassell Equatorial (untitled) on paper. Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot.
Dates:
undated [c.1883-1884]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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RO Greenwich: Plans of Astrographic Dome and Building, 1887
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/21
Scope and Contents
A set of five plans and four tracings (tracings are listed last); originally rolled together. Arranged in chronological order.
Dates:
1887
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Untitled instrument drawing, undated [c.1850-1900?]
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/22
Scope and Contents
Printed section drawing of a [?telescope] mounting on thick paper. Originally rolled in an unlabelled metal tube.
Dates:
undated [c.1850-1900?]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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26" Plate Carrier and Breech, July 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/23
Scope and Contents
Roll marked 'Drawings, New Plate Carriers Breech and Plate for 26 Inch, 1928 July'. Two drawings.
Dates:
July 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Plans of Casella Microphotometer, 1933 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/24
Scope and Contents
A set of eight blueprints and one tracing produced by C.F. Casella and Co. Ltd. Fitzroy Square, London. Originally rolled together and so labelled.
Dates:
1933 - 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Hilger Micrometer Projection Device, undated [c.1939]
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/2/26
Scope and Contents
Two drawings on paper, originally rolled together. The title is written on the reverse of the second drawing.
Dates:
undated [c.1939]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).