[time-nuts] Subject: The Original Time Nut
Jim
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Sat Feb 23 20:14:56 UTC 2008
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Fredriksson" <jan at 41hz.com
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Hi, />/ /
>/ Can anyone point to some good reading on John Harrison, />/ who in
the 18th century devoted his life to making the best />/ timekeepers
ever built and who also constructed and built />/ the first usable
marine chronometer. />/ />/ Jan F
/
Hi Jan
In addition to the wonderful work by Dava Sobel, I have
"Greenwich Time and the Longitude" by Phillip Wilson, published by Derek
Howse 1997; This travels through the sands of time up to the space age.
"John Harrison" by Jonathan Betts , Curator of Horology, National
Maritime Museum
"John Harrison and his Timekeepers" by Lieut Commander Rupert T. Gould,
R.N. (Retired); Reprinted from "The Mariner's Mirror" (The Quarterly
Journal of the Society for National Research) VOL. XXI No 2. April 1935
Also, if you ever get to London England, plan a full day at Greenwich.
Be sure to view John Harrison's time pieces, and get your picture taken
on the 0 Degrees East and West.
Jim C.
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