The Royal observatory, Greenwich. A glance at its history and work (1900)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, The Religious tract society · leaf 177
which might attach to any one of them. But of late years another method has provedavailable. Distant nations are now woven together 174 THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY across thousands of miles of ocean by the submarinetelegraph. The American reads in his morning papera summary of the debates of the previous… … THE TRANSIT PAVILION. {From a photograph by Mr. Lacey.) should he so desire, the time of the transit of a staracross the wires of his instrument, not only on hisown chronograph, but upon that of another observa-tory, it may be 2000 miles away. Or, much moreconveniently, each observer may…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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