Word: greenwich
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...observatory at Bates College will be connected by wire with Harvard and Greenwich, England...
...astronomical observatory at Bates College will be connected by telegraph with the observatories at Harvard, Washington, Mt. Hamilton, Cal., and Greenwich, England. The telescope will be fifteen feet long with a twelve-inch aperture, and will be placed in a building eighty feet long on the top of Mt. David which is 400 feet high...
...after Sunday, November 18, 1883, the telegraphic time-signals sent automatically from this Observatory will conform to the time of the seventy-fifth meridian, to be known as "Eastern Time." This time is exactly five hours slower than Greenwich Mean Time. and 15 minutes 44.5 seconds slower than Boston State House Time heretofore furnished. It is intended that the new time shall be given to the public at noon on the Sunday named above; but as the Observatory signals are the means by which the persons in charge of -public time-pieces will make the necessary preparation for the change...
...signals given according to State House Time will stop at Greenwich midnight, Saturday, November 17, 1883; that is, at about 7h. 16 P. M., by the local time. The signals according to "Eastern time" will begin at Greenwich noon on Sunday, November 18; that is, at 7h Om A. M., by the new standard. The minute immediately preceding 7h A. M. will be entirely occupied by a long rattle of about 36 seconds and a pause of about 24 seconds. This will also occur during the minutes immediately preceding the hours 8, 9, 10, and 11, A. M. The first...
...recent issue of the well-known English astronomical periodical, the Observatory, Mr. A. M. W. Downing of Greenwich reviews a paper lately published in the memoirs of the American academy by Prof. W. A. Rogers of Cambridge, upon the "Harvard College Observatory Catalogue of Stars for 1875." The article by Prof. Rogers is a comparison of the catalogue with the fundamental systems of Anwers, Safford, Boss and Newcomb. This comparison, according to Mr. Downing, shows the excellence of the Harvard College Observatory star places, and goes far to justify the great relative weight which is assigned to them by American...