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Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865.

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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond

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

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...

Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1856-01-01/1856-04-21 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0146
Scope and Contents: Comparisons by 12MT- Comparators -1107 and 1508; Comparison of chronometers with MTC - by aid of 6hr; Comparisons with comparator No. 1508; 1855 June 5th Last comparison before embarcation; Direct comparisons; Comparison of chronometer Thomas Adams No 3585;Comparator Y (No. 1107 -)(copied from the paper found in the top); Sidereal Chronometer No. 3585; Errors of Chronometers on Greenwich M.S.T.; Notes documenting return of specific chronometers following examination; Direct comparison of...

Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1856-01-01/1857-02-27 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0147
Scope and Contents:

Timings of chronometers and Mean Time clocks; notes on clock adjustments; Note of offer by Mr. Dodge to sell telegraph lines to the observatory

Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1856-07-02/1857-02-27 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0148
Scope and Contents:

Questions propounded by Mr Briggs, relative to his clock with a circulating pendulum; Comparison of sidereal clock with that containing Briggs patent circulating pendulum; recorded chronometer timings; Lieut. Ives set up his transit instrument on the stand of our variation-transit and obtained the following y E.C. and the Spring-governor.; Result, time to be given 4 1/2 seconds sooner at Cambridge than the bells at Boston should strike.

Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1860-07-16/1862-09-03 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0150
Scope and Contents:

1860 July 17/18: "These chronometers were used for observing the solar eclipse. See Transit Book of this date."; "Corrections of the New Clock. (Isody. Escap.) [i.e., Isodynamic Escapement] Oct. 23 1860 to Apr. 8 1861; Timing data recorded for various devices; Cambridge and Boston

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