[time-nuts] Bell Labs ad 1952

Gerald Chafee gchafee at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 21:28:06 UTC 2013


Is that heat due to all the tubes? ;)

Jerry


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:16 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gerald it is the clock at the telco company. The folks are not checking the
> time. They are getting warmed up from the heat and only appearing to be
> checking the time.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Gerald Chafee <gchafee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I still have one of those 100kHz crystals in a glass tube "Octal"
> socket. I
> > do not have the room that has 600 vacuum tubes operating and keeping the
> > room within 2 degrees. That is too large to be used for my "outer over"
> > where the currently shown "inner oven" is being kept to 1/100th of a
> > degree.
> >
> > I will stick with a HP 10811 and a FE 5680A
> >
> > And for those people staring at the clock in the window wearing winter
> > coats - get a life, it is just a clock, and not the accurate one -
> probably
> > synced through the AC line power's 60 HZ!.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Don Oconnor <eGunk at wowway.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Found this time-nuts related ad from Bell Laboratories 1952. Enjoy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/securitydvr2010/BellLabsad1952300dpi_zpsbce7d701.jpg
> > >
> > > Don O'Connor
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