Faraday to George Biddell Airy   16 March 1855

Royal Institution | 16 Mar 1855

My dear Sir

Many thanks for your note1[.] I am glad you have found out the mystery and that Mrs. Airy[‘s] kitchen apparatus has turned to account. It always interests me when some deep difficulty is aided by the application of common things for then principle shines forth. Are your troughs made of Gutta Percha? I suppose not[.]

Mr Walker2 has been telling me of your clock at the London Bridge station, and I intend to go some day very soon & look at it. I suppose your activity has made Le Verrier3 active also at the Paris observatory. The announcements of changes there seem at least to look like it[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Yours Very Truly | M. Faraday

G.B. Airy Esqr | &c &c &c

2
Charles Vincent Walker (1812-1882, DNB). Electrician. See Chapman (1998), 43-4.
3
Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier (1811-1877, DSB). Director of the Paris Observatory, 1854-1870.

Bibliography

CHAPMAN, Allan (1998): “Standard Time for All: The Electric Telegraph, Airy, and the Greenwich Time Service” in James (1998), 40-59.

Please cite as “Faraday2953,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2953