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1818 July 30 . J. Hall ALS to Lucy Hall; Liverpool.

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Abstract:
Providing updates about travel and business, including Mr. Wood making improvements to their marine chronometer, collaborating with Doctor Abbott despite potential controversy, and the chronometer being tested at sea. States that Abbott’s theory, likely his magnetic theory of calculating latitude and longitude, isn’t thought to be original or accurate, and that "it is thought that the Doct. Has taken to high a pitch to cord even with John Bulls highest note." "I have the satisfaction to find that we have put a machine in motion that has excited the attention & inquiry of the scientific men in this country and which is acknowledged to be the great desideratum which has been so long sought for & which will be of immense utility for mankind." Discusses conferences with one of Abbott’s advocates, Mr. Bolton of Liverpool. Mr. Wood refuses to work with Abbott.
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Collection

Science and Medicine collection, 1702-1897
Total components 235
Last indexed 2024-06-25