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Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.349
Overview:
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chronometric Expedition was carried out by the Harvard College Observatory, under the direction of William Cranch Bond and in conjunction with the United States Coast Survey. The expedition used chronometers that were made by William Bond & Son, the Bond family's private business, to determine differences of longitude between the observatories in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Liverpool, England. The records primarily consist of notebooks, data sheets,...
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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- Subject
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 2
- Astronomy -- History. 2
- Chronometers. 2
- Correspondence. 2
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 2
- Variable stars. 2
- Account books. 1
- Amateur astronomy. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 1
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomical photography. 1
- Astronomical photometry. 1
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Astronomy. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Chronograph. 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries 1
- Financial records. 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Horology. 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Occultations. 1
- Photographs 1
- Planets. 1
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 1
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 1
- Stars -- Clusters. 1
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Time -- Systems and standards -- United States. 1
- Time-signals. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 2
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 2
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 2
- United States Coast Survey 2
- Bond, Richard Fifield, 1827-1866 1
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