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Book Report of the Board of Managers of the Winchester Observatory of Yale College to the President and Fellows for the Academic Year 1880 1881 to which is Appended the Report of the Astronomer in Charge of the Horological and Thermometric Bureaus

Download or read book Report of the Board of Managers of the Winchester Observatory of Yale College to the President and Fellows for the Academic Year 1880 1881 to which is Appended the Report of the Astronomer in Charge of the Horological and Thermometric Bureaus written by Yale University. Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Third Annual Report of the Astronomer in Charge of the Horological and Thermometric Bureaus in the Observatory of Yale College

Download or read book Third Annual Report of the Astronomer in Charge of the Horological and Thermometric Bureaus in the Observatory of Yale College written by Leonard Waldo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the Astronomer in Charge of the Horological and Thermometric Bureaus in the Observatory of Yale College: 1882-1883 This Bureau has been established by the Corporation of Yale College, at the recommendation of the Board of Managers of the Winchester Observa tory, for the purpose of encouraging the higher development of the horo logical industries, and to pursue researches calculated to aid in the con struction of refined apparatus for the measurement of Time. The Managers have also felt that the introduction of an accurate standard of Time into the community would be acceptable. They have therefore furnished to the principal Railroads and Cities of the State an accurate standard based on the meridian of the City Hall in New York, that being the nearest centre of population to which a standard time could be referred. In this work they have been assisted by the intelligent cooperation of the Railroad officers and the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut. In order to gratify the (expressed) wish on the part of the makers for some proper provision for the rating of their time-pieces, the Board of Managers have made the necessary arrangements with the Safe Deposit Company of New Haven, for the erection within their steel vaults of the proper hot and cold closets, with appliances for controlling the moisture therein, and for the construction of the most recent forms of ordinary temperature closets. They have also provided for this work those appliances of modern astro nomical science which can lessen the amount of personal errors, or promise to render the service more exact. The following regulations governing the reception of time-pieces and the issue of certificates of rates, have been adopted by the Board of Managers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.