[time-nuts] 1937 Time Standard

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Roughly in that era, low frequency quartz standards were showing up. By today’s measures
things were pretty rough. A rack full of gear from GR organized around a 100 KHz bar quite 
literally housed in a heated wooden box was one of the contenders. The UK and Germany also
had horses in that race. Things changed a *lot* over the next ten years …. The whole fusion
of time and frequency had not really happened so those were frequency standards rather than
time standards. The fine old Shortt clock (and similar designs) was still technically the time standard
of choice. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortt-Synchronome_clock


Bob


> On May 21, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Thomas D. Erb <tde at electrictime.com> wrote:
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> I was wondering if anyone knew what the "state of the art" time standard was in the 1937 ?
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