Box 4
Contains 42 Results:
Chronograph, 1864-06-08/1864-07-21 Digital
Prime vertical computation of Latitude, 1864 Digital
Telegraph, 1848-07-06/1848-10-28 Digital
Programme of Telegraph operations from Cambridge observatory (C) to Newyork [sic] Observatory (N) for 1848
Observations for clock corrections for Telegraph Operations; Transits July 8th 1848; Aurora; E Bootis, a2 Libra, B Librae, a Corona Borealis, a Serpentis; Polaris; Spica; Lyra; Star Signals; Immersion of Librae; Observations for Personal equation between WCB and Prof. Loomis; Arcturus illumination day light.
Chronometers, 1851-10-06/1853-07-01 Digital
Telegraph Signals; Sidereal Chronometer Records; R.F. Bond to Halifax; Chronometer sent to Charleston, South Carolina; Mean Time Clock; Time for Boston; Transit of Arcturus
Chronometers (Annular Eclipse 5/26/1854), 1853-07-01/1855-04-21 Digital
Daily time records; Annular Eclipse of May 26; Remarks by W.C.B.; Meteorological Remarks
Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1856-01-01/1856-04-21 Digital
Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1856-01-01/1857-02-27 Digital
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
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, 1858-07-02/1860-07-16 Digital
Data relating to timing output of various clocks and chronometers.
Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1860-07-16/1862-09-03 Digital
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
Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1862-09-16/1866-03-02 Digital
Directions for Absolute Time; Brief Ephemeris for locally-viewed stars for May 1865; Eclipse of Sun - End West Wing Equatorial; Timing output data and status information relating to a number of chronometric devices
Raliroad Time Commenced, 1854-06-29/1854-10-01 Digital
1854 June R.R. Regulators; Notes and recorded data relating to railroad watches
Trials of Pendulums and Chronometers, 1857-04-27/1859-02-19 Digital
Recorded timing data relating to various clocks.
[Comets and Double Stars], Volume 1, 1848-11-01/1849-02-01 Digital
1848 June Measures of the Observatory Buildings Piers and Instruments.
Ring of Saturn and other observations relating to planet including satellites; Enckes Comet; Observations of Jupiter; New comet first seen [Saturday, Nov. 25th]; Mercury; New satellite of Saturn [Dec. 18th]; Petersen's Comet; Nebula R 0h39m Dec -26 ..13'; Examination of Collimation of G[reat] R[efractor][Dec 28th]; Orion; satellite of Neptune; Notes on viewing conditions; Errors of the Equatorial [p. 605]
Equatorial Reductions, 1860-06-21/1861-01-22 Digital
Comet 1860 III: Mean Places for 1860.0 of Comparison Stars; Parallax; Coefficients and Parallax; Observations of Comet 1860 III made at the Observatory of Harvard College; Various Observations in 1859-60;
Equatorial, Volume 1, 1846-10-01/1847-07-01 Digital
Observations on the New Planet; Observations of Meteors over several nights; Jupiter; Possible double star; Corrections for Refraction; Observations on Neptune Oct 1846 to Jun 1847; Andromeda; Saturn; Notice f Comet sent to [list inludes J.Q. Adams, Washington D.C.; First Observations with the Great Refractor [p. 65]; Great Equatorial Observations June 30th 1847; Elements of the Comet of March 4th 1847 From Observations on March 5th, 12th, 19th
Equatorial, Volume 1, 1847-07-01/1847-12-01 Digital
Equatorial, Volume 1, 1847-12-01/1848-08-01 Digital
Equatorial, Volume 1, 1847-11-01/1848-02-01 Digital
Powers of the different eyepieces of the Great Telescope
Orion Nebula; Mars; Jupiter; Lyra; Uranus and satellite; Trapezium; Andromeda; Occultation of 80 Piscium; 29 Ophiuci
Drawings / Star Maps: pp. 260, 266, 267, 268, 270, 271, 272, 274, 283, 288, 292, 294, 295, 310, 319, 326, 327, 328, 331, 332