Astronomy Telegraph System Transferred

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Summary

Responsibility for the system of telegraphic announcement of astronomical discoveries, inaugurated by the Smithsonian Institution in 1873, is transferred to the Harvard College Observatory.

Subject

  • Harvard College Observatory
  • Harvard University

Notes

  • Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897, p. 839.
  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1883. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1885, p. 33-35, 424.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Date

  • January 10, 1883
  • 1883

Topic

  • Telegraph
  • Astrophysics
  • Cooperation
  • International relations
  • Interagency Transfers
  • Astronomy

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