Todd lecture to boys on astronomy
astronomy
Verbatim of an introduction of a lecture by Todd to the Boys' Institute at the YMCA. Includes a summary of the following lecture which covered the solar system and the stellar universe
National Library of Australia TROVE
South Australian Register
January 1891
Mac Benoy
no copyright held
Portable Document Format
pdf
573 KB
English
text
newspaper
npsar18910106p6
Charles Todd - Electrical Engineer
electrical engineering
Summary of presentation by Richard Venus (OEM) at Symposium Aug 2012
Richard Venus
acceded by author
17 August 2012
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. You are free to share, copy, distribute, transmit and to remix and adapt this document but you must attribute the work to the authors/creators.
Engineers Australia
portable document format
Engineering.pdf
Meteorological Work in Australia
Meteorology
A brief and succinct account of meteorological work in Australia to 1893 as reported to the 5th meeting of Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science held at Adelaide, September 1893.
Sir Charles Todd, K.C.M.G., M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., Government
Astronomer, Adelaide, S.A.
Proceedings of Australasian Association for the
Advancement of Science, Section A, Adelaide, September 1893
unknown
September 1893
Hank De Wit, Bureau of Meteorology
none known
text
portable document format
MetorologicaWorkInAustralia.pdf
Australia
Rain Topics
Meteorology, Astronomy
A report on a discussion with Charles Todd about rainfall: It's lack of connection with celestial phenomenon, it's lack of connection with arboreal clearances, and it's connection with agricultural production
South Australian Register
NLA Trove Newspapers online
26 January 1891
Mac Benoy, Australian Meteorological Association
none known
text
portable document format
Rainfall causes (eg sun spots).pdf
Review of weather for summer 1890-91
Meteorology
Sample of seasonal weather report produced by Charles Todd, Government Astronomer
Charles Todd
NLA Trove - newspapers online
South Australian Register
29 April 1891
Mac Benoy, Australian Meteorological Association
none known
text
portable document format
Review Summer weather 1890-91.pdf
South Australia
Todd Carriage Clock
Presented for 75th Birthday
An image of the carriage clock to commemorate Todd's his 75th birthday, presented by "his colleagues of the conference of electrical engineers of the Commonwealth Adelaide 7(?) July 1901". The carriage clock appears to be hand made. Donated by Jeremy Todd(?), great grandson, to the State Library of South Australia at the Todd Symposium, 17 August 2011, Adelaide.
Conference of Electrical Engineers
Jeremy Todd(?)
State Library of South Australia
7 July 1901
Julia Squires, great grand daughter, Queensland
none
image
JPG ( Joint Photographic Experts Group)
clockpics 002.jpg
Todd theory on west to east progression of weather
Meteorology
Ernest Cooke suggested that Todd was the first to counter prevailing belief that weather systems in the southern part of Australia generally progressed from east to west. Cooke was an understudy of Todd's and went on to be the Government Astronomer of Western Australia.
W. Earnest Cooke, M.A., F.R.A.S., Government Astronomer of Western Australia
Proceedings of Eight International Geographic Conference, p. 362-392, Washington, 1905(?)
????
????
Mac Benoy, Australian Meteorological Association
none known
image of text
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG)
Australia
Todd and Observatory Staff
Astronomy, Meteorology
An image taken in the Observatory gardens of Todd with five staff members.
unknown
State Library of South Australia
?????
approximately 1900(??)
?????
?????
image
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG)
South Australia
Charles Todd and Rain Gauge
Meteorology
Image of Todd emptying a rain gauge for measurement of rainfall at West Terrace, Adelaide Observatory (??)
unknown
State Library of South Australia(???)
approximately 1900
unknown(???)
photographic image
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG)
CT _raingauge.jpg
Todd Observing Through Telescope
Astronomy
An image of Todd viewing through an Equatorial or Universal Telescope at the West Terrace Observatory (????)
??????
??????
Approximately 1900
??????
??????
Photographic image
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG)