Drawer 10 PC 2: RGO 96, 108, 109, 116, 190
Container
Contains 7 Results:
File
Drawings of John Harrison's 1773 chronometer, 1773 - 1840
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 116/8
Scope and Contents
A set of drawings of a chronometer by John Harrison. RGO 116/8/3 is by Thomas Bradley.
Dates:
1773 - 1840
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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Halley's Comet: 20th century illustrative material, 1909 - 1986
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 116/11
Scope and Contents
Illustrations, photographs and posters relating to Halley's Comet.
Dates:
1909 - 1986
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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Other 20th century illustrative material (large-scale), 1981 - 1990
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 116/12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Illustrative material collected from various parts of the Royal Observatory archival stores; chiefly images of Royal Observatory buildings at Greenwich. The first two series, the engravings of Francis Place, are perhaps the most celebrated. Other items of note include drawings, sketches and watercolours of the buildings at Greenwich by relatives of the Astronomer Royal, George Airy, including his sisters-in-law Elizabeth Smith (RGO 116/3) and Caroline Smith (RGO 116/4), and his...
Dates:
1981 - 1990
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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Press cuttings from 1922 and 1952-1953, 1922 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 190/1
Scope and Contents
Folder containing a press cutting on a meteor seen at Aldershot (circa 6 Mar. 1922 ), an extract from 'Punch' (27 Feb. 1952) on the subject of time, and Everybody's Weekly magazine (1 Mar. 1952) with an article titled, 'A visit to the home of time' pp.14-15, 24). Also (encapsulated in two outsized Melinex sheets) seven cuttings from a 'Ruggles' cartoon series on astronomy and the Royal Observatory (Daily Mirror, July-Aug. 1952) and an outsized cutting on RGO Herstmonceux.
Dates:
1922 - 1953
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).
Item
Newspaper from 1977 & two cuttings from 1982, 1977-05-11 - 1982-05-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 190/6
Scope and Contents
Copy of 'The Times' (11 May 1977) with reprinted news features from the 1961 Gagarin earth orbit and 1969 Moon landings (page 15). Also (in outsized Melinex sheet) two 1982 cuttings on the addition of an extra second in June and on RGO Herstmonceux.
Dates:
1977-05-11 - 1982-05-07
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).
Item
Charles II by Edward Hawker, c.1680, 1980 - 1990
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 96/3/4
Scope and Contents
20th century print from the National Portrait Gallery.
Dates:
1980 - 1990
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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Isaacus Newton Equ., 1726
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 96/12/3/2
Scope and Contents
Print of an engraving by John Faber after John Vanderbank; executed by J. Cooper.
Dates:
1726
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).