[time-nuts] From Sundials to Atomic Clocks

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 13:10:09 UTC 2011


The link worked fine at the nist site for me though it is slow.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 19:27, Mike Fahmie <mpfahmie at lbl.gov> wrote:
> > On a visit to NIST Boulder (then known as NBS) many years ago (1978), I
> was
> > presented with a copy of NBS Monograph 155, "From Sundials to Atomic
> Clocks"
> > by one of the authors.  I found it to be a fantastic read, it answers all
> of
> > those questions about Time & Frequency that you were afraid to ask.
>
> Excuse me if this is not news to many of you, but in case someone doesn't
> know,
> this monograph is also available in print from Dover:
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Sundials-Atomic-Clocks-Understanding-Frequency/dp/0486409139
>
> (it says in the book that it is a printing of the 1999 version of the
> monograph)
>
> I enjoyed the read. :)
>
> Cheers
> P.
>
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