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2. Ball Watch Company - Wikipedia

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   BALL's old ad. Webb C. Ball set up "RR Standard" ("RR" for Rail Road) to assure a high accuracy and perfect reading to all railroad employees. He also created the BALL Time Service, an after-sale service to which every employee of the rails had to bring his watch every two weeks to make sure the accuracy and reliability of the watch was maximal.

3. Webb C. Ball - Wikipedia

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   Webster Clay Ball. Webster Clay Ball (October 6, 1848 – March 6, 1922) was a jeweler and watchmaker born in Fredericktown, Ohio, who founded the Ball Watch Company.When Standard Time was adopted in 1883, he was the first jeweler to use time signals from the United States Naval Observatory, bringing accurate time to Cleveland.

4. Railroad chronometer - Wikipedia

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   A railroad chronometer or railroad standard watch is a specialized timepiece that once was crucial for safe and correct operation of trains in many countries. A system of timetable and train order , which relied on highly accurate timekeeping, was used to ensure that two trains could not be on the same stretch of track at the same time.

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6. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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   Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...

7. FM H-24-66 - Wikipedia

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   Advertised by Fairbanks-Morse as "the most useful locomotive ever built" upon its introduction in 1953, the 2,400-horsepower (1.8 MW) H-24-66 Train Master was the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive available at the time, legendary for its pulling power and rapid acceleration.