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Paper, 'Description of an astronomical clock invented by the late Capt Henry Kater FRS, drawn up from his own memorandums' by Edward Kater

Reference number: PT/23/9

Date: 1840

Description

28 manuscript pages including one figure showing the shape of a piece of card used in creating the clock's escapement. Further illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/74/7/3-4.

Subject: Astronomy / Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Description of an escapement for an astronomical clock, invented by the late Captain Henry Kater, F.R.S. &c., drawn up from his own memorandums by his son Edward Kater, Esq. Communicated by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., K. H. V. P. R. S. &c'.

Received from Kater on 22 March 1840. Communicated 25 March 1840. Received from Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel on 26 March 1840. Read 30 April 1840.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.

Reference number
PT/23/9
Earliest possible date
1840
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Ink on paper
Page extent
28 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Kater

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Edward Kater, Paper, 'Description of an astronomical clock invented by the late Capt Henry Kater FRS, drawn up from his own memorandums' by Edward Kater, 1840, PT/23/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_23_9/paper-description-of-an-astronomical-clock-invented-by-the-late-capt-henry-kater-frs-drawn-up-from-his-own-memorandums-by-edward-kater, accessed on 21 January 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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