Chronometers.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Chronometer - Stars, 1862/1865 Digital
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Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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M1-32: Miscellaneous (Copies of Originals)
Item — Box 7Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0280
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations and data calculations spanning the early history of the Harvard College Observatory from 1848 until 1877, though most materials date to the subsequent directorships of H.C.O. founder William Cranch Bond and then his son George Phillips Bond prior to his death 1866. Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond, Richard F. Bond, Benjamin Pierce, Charles W. Tuttle, Horace P....
Chronometers, 1851-10-06/1853-07-01 Digital
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Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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G1-8, also Ga, Gb: Relating to Clocks and Chronometers
Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0144
Scope and Contents:
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
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Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
G1-8, also Ga, Gb: Relating to Clocks and Chronometers
Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0145
Scope and Contents:
Daily time records; Annular Eclipse of May 26; Remarks by W.C.B.; Meteorological Remarks
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 George Phillips Bond
FOUND IN:
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...
Minutes of Chronometer Expect., 1849-04-01/1850-02-01 Digital
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Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
D1-35: Relating to the Chronometric Expeditions
Item — Box 3Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0121
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Includes correspondence with Professor J. Wenlock (Identity uncertain)
Mr. J.G. Homer's Original Minutes of Chronometer Expedition, 1857 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
Related Materials
Item — Box 10Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0384
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations and data calculations spanning the early history of the Harvard College Observatory from 1848 until 1877, though most materials date to the subsequent directorships of H.C.O. founder William Cranch Bond and then his son George Phillips Bond prior to his death 1866. Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond, Richard F. Bond, Benjamin Pierce, Charles W. Tuttle, Horace P....
Trials of Pendulums and Chronometers, 1857-04-27/1859-02-19 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
G1-8, also Ga, Gb: Relating to Clocks and Chronometers
Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0153
Scope and Contents:
Recorded timing data relating to various clocks.