Janus: Papers of George Airy

RGO Archives/RGO 6 contains:
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606	Correspondence on chronometers
607	Correspondence on New Palace clock
608	Correspondence on the New Palace clock
609	Correspondence on the New Palace clock
610	Correspondence on galvanic communications
611	Correspondence on galvanic signals
612	Correspondence on galvanic time
613	Correspondence on galvanic time
614	Correspondence on time balls and signals
615	Correspondence on time balls and signals
616	Correspondence on time balls and signals
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Papers of George Airy

Title	Correspondence on galvanic signals
Reference	RGO 6/611 (former reference: C2/2)
Covering Dates	1852–1855
Extent and Medium	1 box

Content and context

Correspondence with the South Eastern Railway and the Electric Telegraph Company and related papers concerning galvanic signals. The papers cover the trials of the Greenwich Mean Time signal between Greenwich and London and Greenwich and Dover, and proposals for and implementation of an extension to the central Telegraph Office, Lothbury, London. There is also correspondence with the Electric Telegraph Company on the time ball service in the Strand, activated from Greenwich by telegraph, and on the use of a systemised time service. The correspondents include C.V. Walker and J.C. Clark.

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Walker, Charles Vincent (1812-1882) electrical engineer

South Eastern Railway Co

Electric Telegraph Co

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