Really great to see the government doing this stuff, we should do everything in our power to help keep important cultural items within the UK and not be sold abroad.
HeftyEast4260 on
I have had my casio watch for so long i feel the same way
JohnEastlea on
Good job there was no bar on it leaving in the 19th century …
Spiracle on
While the association with Darwin grabs the headlines, it’s maybe more appropriate historically to highlight the connection that this instrument has to [Robert Fitzroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Fitzroy) the captain of the *Beagle*.
As captain he would have been responsible for the instrument and carried out some of the navigational trials that helped British ships accurately calculate their longitude and thus dominate naval navigation and sea lanes for a century.
When he retired from active duty he used this new position finding accuracy to gather meteorological information from navy ships and basically invented weather forecasting.
FloydEGag on
That’s good news, it’s pretty important historically!
marksmoke on
A timepiece used on a seagoing voyage by the HMS Beagle – the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his travels – has been placed under an export bar, meaning it cannot leave the UK.
The move by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to buy the pocket chronometer, used aboard the vessel from 1831 to 1836.
The voyage is known for taking Shropshire-born naturalist Darwin to the Galapagos islands, where he carried out work that led to his groundbreaking theory of evolution.
Work also took place to test scientific instruments, helping to establish Greenwich in London as the home of timekeeping, external.
Chronometers are highly-accurate timepieces made for marine navigation, and this device had been made in London in 1830, a year before the ship embarked
By the time the HMS Beagle returned to Britain, it had only lost 33 seconds over five years.
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Really great to see the government doing this stuff, we should do everything in our power to help keep important cultural items within the UK and not be sold abroad.
I have had my casio watch for so long i feel the same way
Good job there was no bar on it leaving in the 19th century …
While the association with Darwin grabs the headlines, it’s maybe more appropriate historically to highlight the connection that this instrument has to [Robert Fitzroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Fitzroy) the captain of the *Beagle*.
As captain he would have been responsible for the instrument and carried out some of the navigational trials that helped British ships accurately calculate their longitude and thus dominate naval navigation and sea lanes for a century.
When he retired from active duty he used this new position finding accuracy to gather meteorological information from navy ships and basically invented weather forecasting.
That’s good news, it’s pretty important historically!
A timepiece used on a seagoing voyage by the HMS Beagle – the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his travels – has been placed under an export bar, meaning it cannot leave the UK.
The move by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to buy the pocket chronometer, used aboard the vessel from 1831 to 1836.
The voyage is known for taking Shropshire-born naturalist Darwin to the Galapagos islands, where he carried out work that led to his groundbreaking theory of evolution.
Work also took place to test scientific instruments, helping to establish Greenwich in London as the home of timekeeping, external.
Chronometers are highly-accurate timepieces made for marine navigation, and this device had been made in London in 1830, a year before the ship embarked
By the time the HMS Beagle returned to Britain, it had only lost 33 seconds over five years.