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William Hamilton Shortt (1881–1971) was a railway engineer and noted horologist, responsible for the design of the Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock, a widely used time standard, employed internationally in observatories in the period between the two World Wars.
On the left is the primary pendulum in its vacuum tank. The Shortt–Synchronome free pendulum clock is a complex precision electromechanical pendulum clock invented in 1921 by British railway engineer William Hamilton Shortt in collaboration with horologist Frank Hope-Jones, [1] and manufactured by the Synchronome Company, Ltd., of London. [2]
In ordinary clock pendulums, the pendulum rod expands and contracts with changes in temperature. The period of the pendulum's swing depends on its length, so a pendulum clock's rate varied with changes in ambient temperature, causing inaccurate timekeeping. The gridiron pendulum consists of alternating parallel rods of two metals with different ...
Older Atmos clock. The first clock powered by changes in atmospheric pressure and temperature was invented by Cornelis Drebbel in the early 17th century. Drebbel built as many as 18 of these, the two most notable being for King James VI & I of Britain, and Rudolf II of Bohemia. The King James clock was known as the Eltham Perpetuum, and was ...
1921 - The Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock becomes the first clock more accurate than the rotation of the Earth; 1927 - Joseph Horton and Warren Marrison describe the first quartz clock at Bell Telephone Laboratories. [8] 1946 - Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell develop nuclear magnetic resonance
Marcel Bétrisey made in 2001 two different clocks (Le Chronolithe and Conti) powered by the light. Their pendulums had bulb lamps located outside the glass dôme and pointing against 4 mica vanes. One meter pendulum gives one second, two lamps placed in either side light up alternately, thus “pushing” the 4 kilos pendulum each time.
When will the geomagnetic storm occur? A storm watch is in effect for Dec. 31. CMEs travel several million miles per hour, so the NOAA predicts that the best time to see the lights would be ...
A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is an approximate harmonic oscillator : It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates.