London
Found in 1992 Collections and/or Records:
George Margetts on a table of altitudes and azimuths, 1790 - 1794
Correspondence regarding various astronomical and nautical tables.
G.K. Whaemen's discovery of the ration which the diameter of a circle bears to its periphery, 1796
H. Briggs on perpetual motion, 1813-12-01
Henry Browse on perpetual motion, 1813 - 1814
Henry Bynner about an instrument forwarded to the Board of Longitude, 1824-07-10
Henry Holden on perpetual motion, 1812
'Hodge's Meteorological Journal', 1811
Printed copy of a journal by Arthur Hodge.
I have examined Mr Frys "mid-styled" flowers stigma in all stands in very middle of anthers, 1862-03-07
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
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ILEA, 1988-01 - 1988-04
Cuttings, briefing and notes of a meeting with Sir Keith Joseph [former Secretary of State for Education and Science] on the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority.
ILEA, 1986-05 - 1987-06
Includes: speech notes on the Inner London Education Authority; paper on the situation of children in inner London; briefings and manifesto for the Labour campaign in the ILEA elections, May 1986, and notes for NK’s election visit.
Illustrated letter from Dr Patrick Browne to the Board of longitude, 1782-09-04
Concerning 'the longitude discovered on mathematical principals and made clear and safely both by sea and land'. The letter outlines his proposed method of finding longitude and includes drawings. It was marked as undeserving of the Board's attention by Nevil Maskelyne.
Index to several precepts advanced by Edward Hewlings, 1803-03-03
Correspondence regarding various astronomical and nautical tables.
Instrument for taking angles at sea, 1792
'Description of an instrument for taking Angles at Sea', as presented to the Board of Longitude by John Wood, 1 March 1792, including a detailed drawing of the instrument [RGO 4/219: 14].
Interview with Dominic Abrams, 1984
Recorded interview between Mark Abrams and his grandson Dominic Abrams at 48 St. Martin's Lane, London, 19 September 1984.
J. Gresley on a discovery relating to variation and leeway, 1821-08-24
Correspondence regarding the effect of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
J. Miles on the cause of the variation of the magnetic needle, 1800-04-26
Correspondence regarding the effects of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
James Andrew's letter accompanying a copy of nautical tables, 1805-10-01
Correspondence regarding various astronomical and nautical tables.
James Bremner on a new theory of magnetism, 1826 - 1828
Correspondence regarding the effect of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
James Davis on perpetual motion, 1805 - 1807
James Moore on an instrument for showing the variation of the compass and latitude and longitude, 1790-07-04
Correspondence regarding the effects of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
James Tait on a method of correcting the variation of the compass by means of Mica, 1820-04-04
Correspondence regarding the effect of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.