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Report on the Recent Determination of the Longitude of Madras

1897

Gill are the determination vid Mokattam ana Suez and the German determination vie' Berlin and Aleandria and though the results of both were utilised to obtain the longitude of the Cape of Goad Hope that of Madras has been made to only depend on one : the anomaly thus exists that whilst the longitude of the observatories of *Madras and the Cape are both equally dependent on the longitude of A [...] We at first thought that there must be a loose joint in the tubes of the telescopes and that the lines of their collimation were unstead7 but eventually we found that the difference was caused by the pressure of the uprights of the lifting apparatus against the horizontal axes of the telescopes. [...] These uprights are capped with friction wheels which are pressed vertically upwards by interior springs against the axes of the telescopes the object of the arrangement being to relieve the Y's of part of the weight of the telescopes and the axes are encircled by grooves for the friction wheels to work in. [...] It was estimated that the cost of the expedition excluding the salaries of the observers but including all their travelling and contingent expenses the transport of the instruments and the pay of the temporary assistants in Europe would amount to Rs. [...] In the report by Major-General Stebnitzki on The geographical position.s.f the city of Teheran" which was published in the 36th volume of the Records of the Topographical Department of the Russian General Staff the actual point in Teheran finally fixed is rot the General's observing station which was identified by Captain Lenox Conyngham near the house of the Sipah Salar Muhammad Khan but th
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Pages
30
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147347
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i S.G. Burrard view
Part I. Narrative Account of the Expedition
1-15 S.G. Burrard view
Part II. Results of the Observations
16-20 S.G. Burrard view
Part III. Comparison with Foreign Values
21-26 S.G. Burrard view
Backmatter
i-i S.G. Burrard view

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