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  2. Warren Marrison - Wikipedia

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    Warren A. Marrison (21 May 1896 – 27 March 1980) [2] was a Canadian engineer and inventor. Marrison was the co-inventor of the first Quartz clock in 1927. [3]

  3. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    In 1923, D. W. Dye at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK and Warren Marrison at Bell Telephone Laboratories produced sequences of precision time signals with quartz oscillators. In October 1927 the first quartz clock was described and built by Joseph W. Horton and Warren A. Marrison at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

  4. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    History of timekeeping devices. A marine sandglass. It is related to the hourglass, nowadays often used symbolically to represent the concept of time. The history of timekeeping devices dates back to when ancient civilizations first observed astronomical bodies as they moved across the sky. Devices and methods for keeping time have gradually ...

  5. Crystal oscillator - Wikipedia

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    In 1928, Warren Marrison of Bell Laboratories developed the first quartz-crystal clock. With accuracies of up to 1 second in 30 years (30 ms/y, or 0.95 ns/s), [8] quartz clocks replaced precision pendulum clocks as the world's most accurate timekeepers until atomic clocks were developed in the 1950s. Using the early work at Bell Laboratories ...

  6. Timeline of time measurement inventions - Wikipedia

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    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; 1949 - Harold Lyons develops an atomic clock based on the quantum mechanical vibrations of the ammonia molecule; 1983 - Radio-controlled clocks become common place ...

  7. Clock - Wikipedia

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    In 1927 the first quartz clock was built by Warren Marrison and J.W. Horton at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Canada. [ 67 ] [ 2 ] The following decades saw the development of quartz clocks as precision time measurement devices in laboratory settings—the bulky and delicate counting electronics, built with vacuum tubes at the time, limited ...

  8. Quartz - Wikipedia

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    Quartz. Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO 4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO 2. Quartz is, therefore, classified structurally as a framework silicate mineral ...

  9. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    Warren Marrison: 1896 Quartz clock [461] 2011 Whitfield Diffie: 1944 Public-key cryptography [462] 2012 Akira Endo: 1933 Mevastatin [463] 2012 Alejandro Zaffaroni: 1923 Drug delivery systems [464] 2012 Barbara Liskov: 1939 Programming Languages and System Design [465] 2012 David A. Thompson: 1940 Thin film magnetic heads [466] 2012 Gary ...