Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Coal and Cotton

Coal and Cotton

Little Winchester Street

distiller and undertaker are the only well-off and successful people in the neighbourhood

performing on stage at the NEC in Birmingham

Twelve figures lettered a-m

Madras Observatory interior mb-width 4372 Coal and CottonPlate 14 from the paper 'Observations for ascertaining the length of the Pendulum at Madras in the East Indies, latitude 13 4' 9', 1N. with the conclusions drawn from the same', by John Goldingham, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 127 170. The painting shows three figures, one British and two Indian, taking an observation using a telescope and pendulum of the type used and described by Captain Henry Kater.