[time-nuts] Re: Strange oscillations

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Sep 10 07:12:58 UTC 2004


In message <012c01c49695$be9d7460$d918f204 at computer>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:

>Thanks for the plug for "Tuxedo Park". Some years
>ago I read "The Invention That Changed the World"
>about radar and the MIT Rad Lab, and it mentions
>Loomis and his private lab. But "Tuxedo Park" is
>one I hadn't heard about before so I picked it up.
>I see it goes into detail about his lab and his precise
>timekeeping interest.

Slightly related and also a good read is A.J.Pierce's memoirs:
http://www.internationalnavigation.org/jp100.html

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