Sujet

Perspective view of the Great Clock of the Royal Exchange, 1844. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Perspective view of the Great Clock of the Royal Exchange, 1844. 'The clock of our Exchange is now going, and what is of equal importance, it is going accurately..The clock...has not varied one half second during the last four weeks!...the Gresham Committee, for rebuilding the Royal Exchange, being desirous of procuring a clock which would give the instant of mean time at Greenwich, solicited the assistance of the Astronomer Royal [Sir George Biddell Airy] in the adaptation and arrangement of the clockmaker's machinery, and generally in the regulation and approval of the entire work..it was finally determined to commission Mr. [Edward] Dent, the chronometer maker, with the charge of constructing the "perfect clock"'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM21A06_372

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,5Mo (6,6Mo) / 31,9cm x 42,0cm / 3768 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male technology man men hat time finance guy clothes British clock dress machine machinery Victorian century Royal Exchange Britain cog cogs newspapers press clothing accuracy concept mechanism top hat B&W timepiece clockwork 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN newspaper engraving Unknown Edward Dent tophat Sir George Biddell Airy Airy George Biddell Sir George Biddell George Biddell Airy Edward J. Dent Edward J. Edward John Dent Edward Dent Edward John