H3 has returned to public display after a thorough cleaning and cataloguing. This video captures Jonathan's feeling about the project as well as the timekeepers move back into its showcase. Conserving the H3 Timekeeper part 6 from Royal Observatory Greenwich...
Posted by Lucinda Blaser, Digital Project Manager on June 28, 2011 11:02 AM
Conserving the H3 Timekeeper part 5 from Royal Observatory Greenwich on Vimeo....
Posted by Lucinda Blaser, Digital Project Manager on June 2, 2011 4:27 PM
Conserving the H3 Timekeeper from Royal Observatory Greenwich on Vimeo. This second installment reveals how the timekeeper is being dismantled and recorded....
Posted by Lucinda Blaser, Digital Project Manager on March 11, 2011 12:06 PM
Harrison's second timekeeper, H2, has been in the horology conservation workshop at the Royal Observatory undergoing research for quite a few weeks now and its study is proving most interesting. The complete measurement of all the parts has now been...
Posted by Jonathan Betts, Senior Specialist, Horology on July 28, 2010 10:40 AM
For the last few weeks, H2 has been in the horology conservation workshop at the Royal Observatory undergoing research. The work, which is part of the continuing research for a full published catalogue of the NMM's collection of marine chronometers,...
Posted by Jonathan Betts, Senior Specialist, Horology on July 12, 2010 10:38 AM
I am a doctoral student at Cambridge University and recently undertook a summer internship at the Royal Observatory. My internship project studied navigational instruments as cultural artefacts - as objects which illuminate the attitudes and beliefs of those who made,...
Posted by Richard Blakemore, ROG intern on October 16, 2009 10:47 AM
On 11th February 2009 the NMM hosted a Flickr meet, through the Flickr Commons group, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG). Our intrepid Flickr Commons followers braved the wind and rain, not to mention the hill, to join us...
Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on February 12, 2009 12:35 PM
In 2009 the Museum celebrates the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), which commemorates the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo in 1609 as well as, amongst other things, the first moon landing (1969). It is hoped that...
Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on January 23, 2009 10:39 AM
We've launched a new series of 'Gallery Favourites' online! 'Gallery Favourites' is a popular series of talks, presented by the Museum's Gallery Assistants, discussing objects from the Museum's collection that intrigue them. In this new series Bill Allan tells the...
Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on December 5, 2008 2:08 PM
This month is the telescope's 400th birthday. Well, sort of. We know that in September 1608 an optician called Hans Lipperhey announced that he had invented a new device and asked for a patent from the Dutch States-General. Before then...
Posted by Richard Dunn, Curator of History of Navigation on September 15, 2008 11:24 AM
Beginning from top left, clockwise: the old Flamsteed House, in front of it the Astrographic (round) dome, and the drum dome of Airy's altazimuth; the onion-shape dome containing the 28-inch refractor; the wooden Magnetic Observatory and a library to...
Posted by Pedro Raposo, Royal Observatory Summer Intern on September 10, 2008 10:27 AM
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