Rates of Chronometers on trial for Purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 184,0 to 1865. Nature - Page 86edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
| Naval art and science - 1883 - 1048 pages
...HR Harris, BN The Astronomer Royal has issued the usual pamphlet giving particulars of the Rates of Chronometers on Trial for Purchase by the Board of Admiralty at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1883. Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine (New York), for October, contains a valuable collection of... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1868 - 536 pages
...of Visitors for the years 1836 to 1852, 1855 to 1859, 1861 to 1863. 25 pamph. 4to. London. Rates of Chronometers on trial for Purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 184,0 to 1865. 4to. London. Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. Proceedings. Session 1863... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1868 - 556 pages
...of Visitors for the years 1836 to 1852, 1855 to 1859, 1861 to 1863. 25 pamph. 4to. London. Rates of Chronometers on trial for Purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1840 to 1865. 4to. London. Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. Proceedings. Session 1863... | |
| 1850 - 1254 pages
...variation under opposite circumstances becomes a matter of close and certain estimate. The rates of chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Observatory, are posted up and printed iu au official form. Upon looking to the do«ument for last... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 468 pages
...to 1860. 5>. • 1871 to 1873. 3s. 1874 to 1876. 5s. each. ADMIRALTY PUBLICATIONS — continued. • Chronometers on Trial for Purchase by the Board of Admiralty at the Royal Obaervitrry, Greenwich, 18S2 to 1881. 4to. Stitched. Is each. Clock Star Lis', 1883 to 1855. 4f>. Broadside,... | |
| Science - 1862 - 784 pages
...servatory.—Continued. the year, in leap year, the first, second, and third years after. London, fol. pp. 85. Rates of Chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory. Greenwich, 1849. 4to. KILKENNY. Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. Transactions of the... | |
| Science - 1862 - 788 pages
...Continued. the year, in leap year, the first, second, and third years after. London, fol. pp. 85. Rates of Chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory. Greenwich, 1849. 4to. KILKENNY. Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. Transactions of the... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library - Engineering - 1866 - 414 pages
...joinery, and cabinet-making; being a With which is bound— • ANONYMOUS. CHRONOMETERS. Rates of, on trial for purchase by the Board of .Admiralty, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1840-60. With account of improvements in chronometers made by Mr. John Sweetman Eifl'e ; with an appendix,... | |
| Edward J. Wood - Clocks and watches - 1866 - 464 pages
...variation under opposite circumstances becomes a matter of close and certain estimate. "The rates of chronometers on trial for purchase by the Board of Admiralty, at the Observatory, are posted up and printed in an official form. Upon looking to the document for last year... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1906 - 740 pages
...tables showing, inter alia, the effect of the various winds upon the tides of the river. Two reports have recently been issued on rates of deck watches...of the first five in the list, in which the watches arc arranged in order of merit, are: — (i) W. Potts and Son, Leeds; (a) L. Hall. I.outh, Lines ;... | |
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