NavList:

I am attaching the photos I took of the HR-2 in case these are of help to you. Notice that the zig-zag runs in the opposite sense from that on the HR-1.

gl

Wolfgang Hasper wrote:

Gary,
I am trying to compile the complete HR instructions
text from the cursor tube.
Do you have photos covering the entire text?

Wolfgang


Am Samstag, 23. Januar 2010 10:03 schrieb Gary LaPook:
  

These two posts have pictures of HR-1 and HR-2
German copies of the Bygrave which are kept at the
NMM.

http://www.navlist.net/m2.aspx?i=109378&y=200908

http://www.navlist.net/m2.aspx?i=109429&y=200908

gl

George Huxtable wrote:
    

The prigramme for the symposium at the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich, has recently appeared
on the NMM website. It will be on May 6th (pm) and
May 7th. It's titled "A sense of direction" and is
intended to give broad-ranging coverage of History
of Navigation.

The website of the NMM itself can be found at
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/

A bit of searching within it brings up the
following-

Booking Form (which is also attached) at-
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Booking_form_-_A_S
ense_of_Direction.pdf

A listing of the symposium programme at-
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/conferences-and-s
eminars/senseofdirection

and a list of abstracts at-
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/doc/Navigation_Symposi
um_abstracts.doc

There are several names there which will be
familiar to Navlist members. On the Thursday
morning (6th), before lunch (after which the
symposium starts) two visits are scheduled-

1. Jonathan Betts, the museum's horologist, fresh
from repairing and restarting Harrison's H1
chronometer, will be dismantling his H2 timepiece
for its first overhaul since Rupert Gould revived
it in the 1920s. He will be doing the job in
public view, brave fellow.

2. Tthere will be group visits to the Museum's
off-site backup store. I've been there twice
before, and can confirm that it's full of all
sorts of interesting goodies that haven't found a
place in the main museum. For example, Geoffrey
Kolbe has reported on inspecting there some MHR1
German versions of the Bygrave.

These visits, limited in numbers,  are likely to
be quickly booked up, so you are advised not to
delay.

I expect to see a good half-dozen Navlist members
there, with a garnishing of wives. There will be a
reception, drinks provided, on the Thursday night,
after which there will probably be an ad-hoc
wandering-off together by participants to a local
hostelry for a meal (at least, that's what
happened at the last such event, two years ago). I
wonder if an informal gathering of the Navlist
participants on another evening would be welcome?
It rather depends on who expects to be in
Gteenwich, when. The best time seems perhaps to be
the Wednesday evening; what do others suggest?

George.

contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13
5HX, UK.


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