Janus: Papers of George Airy

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

Title	Correspondence on galvanic time
Reference	RGO 6/613 (former reference: C2/4)
Covering Dates	1855–1858
Extent and Medium	1 box

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Correspondence and related papers on the communication of time by the Post Office telegraph. There are papers on the trials, costs and tests of clocks on the network; the regulation of clocks; proposals for time signals to be sent to naval dockyards from Greenwich; time balls at Portsmouth, Devonport, Sheerness, Glasgow, Hamburg, Liverpool and the City Observatory, London; and a report by Airy on the workings of the Devonport Time Ball and sketches of its galvanic arrangement. The correspondents include J. Washington, J.C. Clark, C.P. Smyth, H. Wood, H.C.G. Rumkes, G. Fisher, C.F. Varley, C.V. Walker, E. Sabine, C.C. Parker and R.B. Osborne.

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