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600	Correspondence on chronometers
601	Correspondence on chronometers
602	Correspondence on chronometers
603	Correspondence on chronometers
604	Correspondence on chronometers
605	Correspondence on chronometers
606	Correspondence on chronometers
607	Correspondence on New Palace clock
608	Correspondence on the New Palace clock
609	Correspondence on the New Palace clock
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Papers of George Airy

Title	Correspondence on chronometers
Reference	RGO 6/604 (former reference: J5/110)
Covering Dates	1875–1876
Extent and Medium	1 volume

Content and context

Correspondence on the ownership of, rates of, accounts of, listings of, repairs to, and packing of various chronometers. The volume includes papers on the defects and repairs to the Portsmouth sidereal clock; trials of new deck clocks; a report on the establishment and inspection of a new electric turret clock for London University; and enquiries on the Greenwich sidereal standard clock by J.W. Reffitt. The correspondents include F.J.O. Evans, R. Hall, W.B. Carpenter and W.H.M. Christie.

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Clocks

Christie, Sir William Henry Mahoney (1845-1922) Knight, astronomer

Carpenter, William Benjamin (1813-1885) naturalist

Evans, Frederick John Owen (1815-1885) hydrographer

University of London

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