Janus: Papers of George Airy

RGO Archives/RGO 6 contains:
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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
617	Correspondence on time balls and signals
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Papers of George Airy

Title	Correspondence on galvanic time
Reference	RGO 6/612 (former reference: C2/3)
Covering Dates	1849–1855
Extent and Medium	1 box

Content and context

Correspondence on the communication of time by telegraph to Exeter, Norwich, the Bank of England, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Southampton. The papers include complaints about alleged inaccuracies of the Liverpool Time Ball; a request for a clock for the Greenwich Hospital School Observatory; galvanic regulations of the clocks at the General Post Office and the Athenaeum; and the construction of sympathetic galvanic clocks. The correspondents include C.V. Walker, J.C. Clark, S.H. Northcote, G. Fisher, E. Sabine, J. Phillips, C. Wheatstone and T. Cooke.

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Phillips, John (1800-1874) geologist

Sabine, Sir Edward (1788-1883) Knight, army officer and physicist

Walker, Charles Vincent (1812-1882) electrical engineer

Fisher, George (1794-1873) astronomer

Wheatstone, Sir Charles (1802-1875) Knight, developer of telegraphy

Bank of England

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