[time-nuts] Alfred Loomis - an early time nut

[David G. McGaw]

You can watch the PBS American Experience program on him, "The Secret of 
Tuxedo Park" here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/secret-tuxedo-park/#part01

David N1HAC

On 5/12/20 7:56 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:

Yes, the book about Loomis by Jennet Conant is highly recommended. The
"time nut" pages are here:

http://leapsecond.com/pages/loomis/Loomis-Tuxedo-Conant-p66-p70.pdf

Besides being the man behind LORAN, and a hundred other clever ideas, he
also pushed the state of the art in timekeeping, comparing the world's
best pendulum clocks against the best quartz clocks:

http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1931-RAS-Analysis-Loomis-Chronograph-Brown-Brouwer.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1931-RAS-Precise-Measurement-Time-Loomis.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1932-Modern-Precision-Clocks-Loomis-Marrison.pdf

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lee_Loomis

"Alfred Lee Loomis (1887—1975) A Biographical Memoir by Luis W. Alvarez"
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/loomis-alfred.pdf

"Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That
Changed the Course of World War II"
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.1570779

"Talking with Alfred"
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shapin/files/shapin_lrbtuxedopark.pdf

"Alfred Lee Loomis - Obstetric ultrasound"
http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/loomis.html

"The scientist-tycoon whose work on radar helped win WWII"
http://www1.lasalle.edu/~didio/reviews/rev_tuxedo_park.htm

/tvb


On 5/12/2020 4:24 PM, Bob Martin wrote:
>/Does anyone know about Alfred Loomis and his />/early precision time measurements? />//>/According to the article in the link below, he />/was also involved in WWII radar and the creation of Loran. />//>/http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/loomis.html />//>/bob/