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| Name | Why is Greenwich Home to the Royal Observatory? |
| Video Uploader | Video From Robslondon |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 09-04-2023 17:00:14 |
| Video Discription | Greenwich in south-east London has long been famous for its connections with time and longitude... and at the centre of this important role is the beautiful Greenwich Royal Observatory. In this video, the wonderful people from the Royal Museums Greenwich Collection were kind enough to invite me to the Observatory for an after-hours look around- which means in this video, we'll pretty much have this historic site all to ourselves! As we go around, I'll be explaining why the Royal Observatory came to be based in Greenwich, and how it sealed its position as the planet's prime time keeper, along with showing you some of its most beautiful treasures... including the Sir Christopher Wren designed 'Octagon Room' and John Harrison's revolutionary Chronometers, which are amongst the most stunning time-keepers ever crafted... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:58 Longing for Longitude 03:14 Establishing the Royal Observatory 04:54 Flamsteed House 06:01 The Octagon Room 08:07 Edmond Halley 09:44 The Camera Obscura 10:34 Harrison's Chronometers 14:53 Greenwich Mean Time 15:30 The Prime Meridian 16:09 The Greenwich Time Ball 17:17 The Shepherd Gate Clock 18:31 The BBC Pips Time Signal 19:10 The Great Equatorial Telescope 21:12 Outro ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to express my heartfelt thanks to the staff at the Royal Museums Greenwich Collection for inviting me along for this opportunity, with special thanks in particular to Victoria Mottram who showed me around the Observatory. If you would like to visit the Royal Observatory, you can find further information on their website: https://www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory The Royal Observatory YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@RoyalObservatoryGrnwich Thank you so much to all of you who support my channel with your kind words, likes and shares. If you're feeling extra generous, you can also support my work with a tip via either the YouTube 'thanks' button (which appears as a heart icon below the video), or alternatively, via my Ko-fi account: https://ko-fi.com/robslondon Any such financial donations are of course greatly appreciated, and they really do help when it comes to creating content. I have an online store too- robsonlinedesigns- where you can purchase an array of London themed mugs, featuring hand illustrated designs of taxis, tube trains, buses and so on: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/robsonlinedesigns My other links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/cabmirror Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert_lordan/?hl=en-gb My website: https://robslondon.com Thanks again for watching, friends. Stay well, and please be sure to stay tuned! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits: Images: Global Positioning Satellites, 1981: U.S National Archives (Public Domain) Lattitude & Longitude Globes: Pearson Scott Foresman (Creative Commons) Halley's Comet: NASA (Creative Commons) The Longitude Act image: LiveRail (Creative Commons) Time Ball Drop Footage: mckenndk YouTube Channel AMAT Telescope images: © National Maritime Museum * * * Music: Drunken Sailor (Cooper Cannell) A Baroque Letter (Aaron Kenny) Invitation to the Caste Ball (Doug Maxwell) Juno in the Space Race (Loopop) AnaCaptainslogue (Noir Et Blanc Vie) Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Blue Danube (Strauss) Confident Kurt (TrackTribe) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [T2IMzltxWqM] |
| Category | Travel & Events |
| Tags | London | London History | South east London | Greenwich | Royal Observatory | Royal Observatory Greenwich | Longitude | Lattitude | Sir Christopher Wren | King Charles II | Astronomy | Navigation | Octagon Room | Telescope | Edmond Halley | Halley's Comet | Royal Astronomer | John Harrison | Tompion Clock | Chronometer | Prime Meridian | Greenwich Meantime | BBC Pips | Greenwich Time ball | Great Equatorial Telescope | River Thames | Camera Obscura | John Flamsteed |
