Terror and Erebus, 1839

In 2020, Crozier and myself took an 1840s' dipping needle along part of Terror and Erebus' 1839-43 expedition and made magnetic observations.

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

An account of the Fox dipping needle’s voyage around Africa in 2020, complete with storms, diplomatic incidents, ants, tropical heat, and magnetic experiments, and lots of C19th Cornish science #cornishscience #theterror #science @FalmouthUni @royalsociety
https://t.co/PMwjHTt45m

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

On Tuesday, will be giving a talk on the Royal Navy and the Magnetic Crusade - with lots on John Franklin and #Cornish dipping needles. Do join, if you can - it’s free and online

#cornishscience #theterror #science #magnetism #history #polar #cornwall

https://t.co/jVkUOugbps

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

It’s finally out - all about Fox’s dipping needle and the Magnetic Crusade. And lots on #cornishscience

Thanks so much to @PolyFalmouth, @FalmouthUni, @FalmouthArtGall, and everyone who helped with this

#cornwall #cornish #falmouth #history #mines #mining #magnetism

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

At last. They have arrived. Thanks to everyone who helped with the project, from researchers, to crew, amanuenses, experimentalists, financiers, librarians, curators…it’s some list!

@OUPHistory #history #science #cornishscience #magnetism #empire #arctic #theterror #Antarctica

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

@OUPHistory very kindly put this rather cool blog post together - five ways the British Magnetic Enterprise changed the concept of global science!

#science #magnetism #british #empire #navy #theterror #Antarctica #arctic #polar #nature #global #history

https://t.co/xhBguhTSau

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

The underground experiments that helped shaped the magnetic dipping needles on which the royal navy’s global magnetic survey depended

#cornishscience

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

The final instalment of a trilogy of papers on C19th #Cornishscience - this time on the mine as a site of electrical experiment. Thanks to History of Science for such a pleasing publication

#experiment #cornish #cornwall #science #hps #mine #electricity

https://t.co/xqBwA1yCEs

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

The story of how Robert Were Fox’s magnetic dipping needles made their way from Falmouth to the furthest corners of the world - on ships like these…

#cornishscience #cornwall #cornish #history #falmouth #fox #empire #imperialism

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

First sight of the new book cover - HMS Terror and Erebus at the Antarctic by John Carmichael.

With penguins!!

#penguin #theterror #erebus #navy #antarctic #southpole #magnetism #antarctica #polar #wednesday #book #art #history

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

@baffin_j If ever you’re over - we should get you to see the needle!

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

@baffin_j We wish you were there!!

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

In Cornwall on Friday? Have £1 to spare? Come along to @PolyFalmouth for an evening’s discussion of Cornish mining, steam power, and nineteenth-century energy crisis.

#cornwall #cornish #history @BBCCornwall #falmouth #mining @CornishMining #science #hps

https://t.co/FHAO3SSw8X

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

Aged 10-110? Come along and see electromagnetic experiments by Faraday and Øersted - and take part in measurements with an original Fox-type dipping needle, from the 1840s, as used on HMS Terror and Erebus

#cornwall #theterror #history #science @FalmouthUni @BBCCornwall #faraday

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

If you’re in Cornwall this Saturday, come to a festival of Victorian science in Falmouth, where the Royal Polytechnic Society is hosting “Adventures in Electro Magnetism”

@PolyFalmouth #cornwall @CornwallLive #science #experiment #weekend @FalmouthTownUK

https://t.co/8ED4RggPgi

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

For anyone interested in Cornish science and British naval exploration in the 19th century. Thanks to @PolyFalmouth and @FalmouthArtGall, as ever, for the loan of the instrument!

#cornwall #cornish #cornishscience @FalmouthUni #theterror #history #exploration #falmouth #science

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Watch Dr Edward Gillin's fascinating talk about his voyage from Falmouth to Cape Town with an original nineteenth-century dipping needle retracing the routes of magnetic survey expeditions: https://t.co/Rf01068VZu @edward_gillin @AnnaMarieRoos3 #theterror #histsci #histstm

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

@AnnaMarieRoos3 @PolyFalmouth Just a quick update - this won’t be live but available after recording

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

If you’re interested in the magnetic instruments (built in Cornwall) of C19th naval expedition, this might be for you! Thanks to @AnnaMarieRoos3 for the kind invite!

#cornwall #cornish #science @PolyFalmouth #magnetic #history #theterror #polar #arctic #Antarctic #london

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

Unsure over what to do next Thursday afternoon? How about an online @royalsociety seminar on “The instruments of expeditionary science and the reworking of nineteenth-century magnetic experiment”? (23 Feb, 4pm) #hps #magnetism #cornishscience #theterror

https://t.co/8BUhaR9qnw

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

Surveying the dock where, in 1911, RMS Titanic and Olympic were built. Nicely marked out with white paving stones to give a sense of scale

#titanic @TitanicQuarter #belfast #history #olympic #ship #history #maritimehistory #ocean #liner @TitanicBelfast @VisitBelfast #engineering

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

Standing a few yards away from where the Titanic’s stern hung over the Lagon and, on 31 May 1911, first entered the water

#titanic @TitanicQuarter #belfast #history #ship #history #maritimehistory #ocean @TitanicBelfast @VisitBelfast #engineering

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

She’s beautiful! The SS Nomadic - the last surviving White Star Line ship. Built 1911 as a tender, she took passengers from Cherbourg to the Titanic in 1912

@TitanicBelfast @TitanicQuarter @VisitBelfast #belfast #maritime #history #titanic #thursday #ships #sea #travel #ocean

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

Footnotes can lead you on a long journey!! From a reference in a paper by Michael Faraday in 1831, to a blue plaque and science festival in 21st-century #Cornwall

#cornishscience @PolyFalmouth #empire @FalmouthUni #history #science #theterror #cornish

https://t.co/l0KbEFcXWK

[Terror and Erebus, 1839 @AndErebus]

Unless you plan to live to 2117 (I do, obviously) this is the nearest you’ll ever come to witnessing the transit of Venus across the sun. Unless of course you saw it in 2012. In which case…bravo!
#venus #astronomy #transit #science

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

Brilliant display piece for the 1761/69 transit of Venus in the @RMGreenwich - really though @CarolynKennett would love this!

#astronomy #venus #sun #celestial #science #history #transit #space #museum #greenwich

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

Alexander McDonald, assistant surgeon on HMS Erebus, his #medicine chest, and a poem written by some year 4s regarding the items. The chest and tourniquet were retrieved from the #Arctic following the Franklin expedition and are now in @RMGreenwich #theterror For @sampopewriter!

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

John Wildman’s portrait of James Clark Ross, now in @RMGreenwich, with a close up of his dipping needle - determining the North Magnetic Pole. On seeing the original, I’m pleased to see it’s pulled to 90 degrees - at the pole! Fine detail. For @Downeast_Alexa #theterror #arctic