Chronometers.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Chronometers, 1851-10-06/1853-07-01 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, 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
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition
FOUND IN:
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,...