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Join us on a Voyage in Time... toolsofknowledge.org/2023/05… We invite volunteers to join our @the_zooniverse project, with @RMGreenwich, tracking the itineraries of the Royal Navy’s chronometers over more than a century. Project link: zooniverse.org/projects/sara… (NB not for mobile)
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Dr Jamie Davies@JDaviesHeritage18 Apr 2024
Help reveal the working lives of Royal Navy chronometers, tracking the people and places they encountered over more than a century @ToK_AHRC @NauticalHistory @NatHistShips @maritimebritain @navalhistorian zooniverse.org/projects/tool…

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Help reveal the working lives of Royal Navy chronometers, tracking the people and places they encountered over more than a century

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We have completed the first set of pages - thank you all! A new tranche is now in place and all three workflows are up and running. Why not spend the last days of Betwixtmas, and the first of 2024, exploring the journeys of Royal Navy chronometers?! zooniverse.org/projects/tool…

Voyages in Time | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Help reveal the working lives of Royal Navy chronometers, tracking the people and places they encountered over more than a century

zooniverse.org
Dr Jamie Davies@JDaviesHeritage26 Dec 2023
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1/ Our Zooniverse transcription project is going along strongly, with the first tranche of pages from the Admiralty Chronometer Ledgers now nearly complete. zooniverse.org/projects/tool… Thread ⬇️⬇️ #histsci #histSTM #dighums #transcription #museums
Screenshot from the front page of the Voyages in Time Zooniverse project

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11/ This timeline can also be generated as a circle. A slider allows you to choose to show the full itinerary or cycles. This shows a 15 year cycle, suggestive of overlapping patterns of use, test and repair. Future work at scale might reveal wider patterns and seasonality.
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12/ From the point of view of our core database on scientific instrument makers, it's great to see how closely and frequently they were involved in the Admiralty's deployment of chronometers. For the curator, it's fantastic to have added to the stories this one object can tell!
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1/7 With the project end in sight (yikes!), we be sharing a few titbits and insights from our database and collections data. This journey will connect object, to maker, to location, starting with this optical protractor from @NtlMuseumsScot collections nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collec…
A circular brass protractor with optical lenses, inside an open, circular mahogany box. Photo: National Museums Scotland

ALT A circular brass protractor with optical lenses, inside an open, circular mahogany box. Photo: National Museums Scotland

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6/7 The Scott Monument was completed in 1846. The database tells us that the Adies were at 58 Princes Street 1830-1843, before moving to No. 50, where the business continued to 1876, then round the corner to Hanover Street until 1880. The protractor was made around 1875
View of the Scott Monument on Princes Street, c. 1890, with the row of buildings, including shops, opposite. Photo from the Historic Environment Scotland archives.

ALT View of the Scott Monument on Princes Street, c. 1890, with the row of buildings, including shops, opposite. Photo from the Historic Environment Scotland archives.

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7/7 Next time you visit M&S in Edinburgh, think of the Adies. You can read more about Alexander Adie here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexan…
Screenshot from Google Streetview, showing the buildings, including the 1950s Mount Royal Hotel, more-or-less opposite the Scott Monument.

ALT Screenshot from Google Streetview, showing the buildings, including the 1950s Mount Royal Hotel, more-or-less opposite the Scott Monument.

Screenshot from Google Streetview, showing the location of No. 54-58 Princes Street, the address of the Mount Royal Hotel and Marks & Spencer

ALT Screenshot from Google Streetview, showing the location of No. 54-58 Princes Street, the address of the Mount Royal Hotel and Marks & Spencer

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