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

[gandalfg8 at aol.com]

As well as the CSPAN interview on youtube there's also a printed transcript at...



https://www.c-span.org/video/?169779-1/tuxedo-park



That's a very good read in itself, and with a rather interesting observation 34 minutes and 17 seconds in:-).......



Jennet Conant
He bought three Shortt clocks. They were very famous astronomical clocks, the most exact clocks in the world. In fact, Big Ben is a Shortt clock. They were fabulously expensive. He bought no less than three for his laboratory.------------------------------



There is a CSPAN author interview on youtube.  Not much about time-nuttery but 
lots of stories about the people involved.  Her grandfather was president of 
Harvard during WW II and he was tangled up with much of the wartime research.

A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science: Finance, Investing 
(2002)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6U2yUNQRY8
57 minutes.