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Divett Street, Port Adelaide [B 9039] • Photograph

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Summary

A.E. Sawtell's premises on Divett Street (north side) Port Adelaide. Standing outside the premises are Mr. Heinman, watchmaker for A.E. Sawtell, and Mr. Sommerville (arms folded), nautical instrument maker. The building on the left is on the east corner of Commerical Road. Alfred Sawtell provided the surveyor's transit instrument used for determining exact time of South Australia before the establishment of the Observatory in 1860 and the time ball tower at Semaphore in 1875. Greenwich Mean Time was relayed to vessels moored in the Port's inner harbour so the shipboard chronometers could be rated and corrected. This determined longitude and aided navigation. Sawtell also provided daily barometric and temperature data to local newspapers.

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Physical description

Photograph; 15.6 cm x 10.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1890

Collection

Part of Port Adelaide Collection

Subject

Sommerville, Mr
Heinman, Mr
Sawtell, Alfred Edwin, 1842-1902
Opticians -- South Australia -- Port Adelaide

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Digitisation information

Date

16/11/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,114 x 2,187 pixels (6.8 MP)

Size

20.45 MB

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