"An Event Of No Ordinary Interest" - The Inauguration of Albany's Dudley Observatory

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Jun 1999

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 1-20 (1999).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Dudley Observatory, Timekeeping, U.S. Coast Survey, Lazzaroni, Aaas

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The inauguration of the Dudley Observatory was a watershed in mid-nineteenth-century American science; most American scientists of any note attended the event, which took place in Albany in 1856 August at the close of the Annual Meeting of the AAAS. New York artist Tompkins Matteson's painting of the event, which includes more than 160 portraits, has been widely reproduced; however, an accompanying identification key created decades later is quite erroneous and misleading. A new key, which identifies 58 of the country's leading scientists and New York business and political figures, has been prepared, and, in conjunction with what is currently known about the painting's history, is detailed. Dudley Observatory's plan to sell time to New York cities and railroads was highlighted at the inauguration ceremony; an engraved marble tablet linking the electrical clock depicted in Matteson's painting to the facility's mean-time distribution system is discussed.

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