Contemporary account from 1834

 

Date: 1834
Author: Anonymous
Title: Time Ball, on the Greenwich Observatory
About: Published in the The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, Vol XXIII, No.642, pp.8–9, 4 Jan 1834, (J. Limbird, London), this account has what are probabally the first published drawings of the recently completed Greenwich time ball. 
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