10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOX CHRONOMETER»
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1
Corps Papers, and Memoirs on Military Subjects: Compiled ...
Compiled from Contributions of the Officers of the Royal Engineers and the East
India Company's Engineers John Williams (capt.) Sidereal Box CHronoMeter
FrodsHaM 2. Sidereal Box CHronometer Arnold 341. (Standard.) Sidereal Box ...
John Williams (capt.), 1849
2
Account of improvements in Chronometers, made by J. S. E. ...
The box chronometer has not been improved during the last half century. By
com_ parison of chronometers made as far back as that time, and by reference to
their rates, no * That surely must be considered an imaginary advantage, which
has ...
John Sweetman EIFFE, 1842
3
Account of Improvements in Chronometers
1 It will now be necessary to describe the character of the box chronometer. The
placing any remarks upon it, in this part of these papers, will be attributed to a
desire to have them as near to the descriptions of the auxiliary power as possible.
John Sweetman Eiffe, Robert Molyneux, 1842
4
Account Of An Expedition From Pittsburgh To The Rocky ...
An émersion of Jupiter's first satellite was observed at 6" 03' IS" P. M. per box
chronometer. Some flying clouds. Sky about Jupiter clear. Error and rate of T ime-
piece computed agreeably to the results before stated : to find the longitude.
The stationary chronometers used at Kingston were the following : — Molyneux
2354 a half-seconds box-chronometer, going solar time nearly. i 2, a half-
seconds box-chronometer, going sidereal time nearly, ï, a table-chronometer,
beating ...
Royal Greenwich Observatory. Magnetic Station, Hartland, Eng, 1847
The observations of time were made by means Of a box-chronometer by ADAMS
of London, Obligingly furnished by Lieutenant C. A. PETTERSSON, Of the
Navigation School of GOteborg. It was compared with his standard chronometer
about ...
7
Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
... it became silent. A few crows also, at the same time, rose together, and flew
around us uttering cries. Mr. Hansteen was kind enough to offer me a box-
chronometer (Dent, 2103) ; I accepted it, thinking that, perhaps, I might be able to
...
Royal Astronomical Society, 1852
8
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
From a comparison with the box chronometer to be next mentioned, for the loan
of which I was indebted to the kindness of Mr. F RODSIIAM, I estimated the error
on Greenwich mean time of Frodsham 9768 to be 32 sec. slow, for July 3, 15", ...
9
On the Total Solar Eclipse of July 18th 1860, Observed at ...
From a comparison with the box chronometer to be next mentioned, for the loan
of which I was indebted to the kindness of Mr. Frodsham, I estimated the error on
Greenwich mean time of Frodsham 9768 to be 3-2 sec. slow, for July 3, 15h, ...
10
Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita To Australia
PROVENANCE: The box chronometer was purchased by the Sydney Technical
Museum (the precursor of the Powerhouse Museum) from a Mr Norman John
Nisbet, of Double Bay, in 1937. At the time, however, it was not recognised that
this ...
Peter Barber, Katherine Barnes, Dr Nigel Erskine, 2013
