Tools of Knowledge

Exploring the communities of the scientific instrument trade, 1550-1914 @SussexHumsLab @NtlMuseumsScot
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[Tools of Knowledge @ToK_AHRC]

Join us on a Voyage in Time... https://t.co/pe9Qiq0cTK
We invite volunteers to join our @the_zooniverse project, with @RMGreenwich, tracking the itineraries of the Royal Navy’s chronometers over more than a century. Project link: https://t.co/9qx6oExd1A (NB not for mobile)

[Dr Jamie Davies @JDaviesHeritage]

Help reveal the working lives of Royal Navy chronometers, tracking the people and places they encountered over more than a century @ToK_AHRC @NauticalHistory @NatHistShips @maritimebritain @navalhistorian https://t.co/0VTJHZggPx

[Tools of Knowledge @ToK_AHRC]

We have completed the first set of pages - thank you all! A new tranche is now in place and all three workflows are up and running. Why not spend the last days of Betwixtmas, and the first of 2024, exploring the journeys of Royal Navy chronometers?!
https://t.co/8XP78UQuEM

[Dr Jamie Davies @JDaviesHeritage]

11% to go- please share

[Tools of Knowledge @ToK_AHRC]

12/ From the point of view of our core database on scientific instrument makers, it's great to see how closely and frequently they were involved in the Admiralty's deployment of chronometers. For the curator, it's fantastic to have added to the stories this one object can tell!

[Tools of Knowledge @ToK_AHRC]

1/ Our Zooniverse transcription project is going along strongly, with the first tranche of pages from the Admiralty Chronometer Ledgers now nearly complete. https://t.co/8XP78UQuEM Thread ⬇️⬇️ #histsci #histSTM #dighums #transcription #museums

[Tools of Knowledge @ToK_AHRC]

11/ This timeline can also be generated as a circle. A slider allows you to choose to show the full itinerary or cycles. This shows a 15 year cycle, suggestive of overlapping patterns of use, test and repair. Future work at scale might reveal wider patterns and seasonality.

[Tools of Knowledge @ToK_AHRC]

7/7 Next time you visit M&S in Edinburgh, think of the Adies. You can read more about Alexander Adie here https://t.co/pFkNFyjTMG

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1/7 With the project end in sight (yikes!), we be sharing a few titbits and insights from our database and collections data.

This journey will connect object, to maker, to location, starting with this optical protractor from @NtlMuseumsScot collections https://t.co/fA5b7yawsO

[Tools of Knowledge @ToK_AHRC]

6/7 The Scott Monument was completed in 1846. The database tells us that the Adies were at 58 Princes Street 1830-1843, before moving to No. 50, where the business continued to 1876, then round the corner to Hanover Street until 1880. The protractor was made around 1875