Harvard College Observatory
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.6
Overview:
The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer,...
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.2
Overview:
The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond document the founding, growth, and scientific research of the Harvard College Observatory primarily from 1840 to 1859. Also chronicled is the Observatory’s participation in advances made in astronomy, stellar photography, meteorology, continental exploration, and technological improvements in astronomical instruments in the early nineteenth century. William Cranch Bond (1789-1859), American astronomer and instrument...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Fonds Identifier: UAV 630.377
Overview:
In 1872, under Director Joseph Winlock, the Harvard College Observatory established the world’s first public time service, which it provided as a commercial service until 1892. The Observatory sold its time service to railroads and businesses by sending hourly signals over Boston’s fire alarm system and distributing time across the region via Western Union telegraph lines; this work eventually resulted in the establishment of the country's first time zone. The Records of the Harvard College...
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- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Astronomical photometry. 2
- Astronomy -- History. 2
- Astronomy -- Research. 2
- Chronograph. 2
- Chronometers. 2
- Correspondence. 2
- Financial records. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Account books. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomy -- Observations. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 1
- Horology. 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors -- Orbits 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Orion Nebula 1
- Photographs 1
- Planets--Brightness. 1
- Planets--Orbits. 1
- Planets. 1
- Refracting telescopes. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Time -- Systems and standards -- United States. 1
- Time-signals. 1
- Variable stars -- Spectra 1
- Variable stars. 1 ∧ less
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