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Re: Watches as chronometers
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2012 Feb 11, 00:25 -0700
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2012 Feb 11, 00:25 -0700
His marine chronometers could not match the accuracy of his regulators, naturally, but William Andrewes described his regulators (credibly, it seems) as good to 1 second in 3 months. Essentially the limit of what is possible using a pendulum in air. See The
Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium,
Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993 for details.
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Alan S <alan202@verizon.net> wrote:
Ken Muldrew:
I've read a bit about Mr. Harrison, and assuming we are talking about the same gentleman, he was finally awarded, by King George 111, The Longitude Prize, the results you mentioned, re accuracy strike me as absolutely amazing. Am I to easily amused?Alan
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"\ L | Arbourealis RDC ltd. | kbmuldrew@gmail.com | / /
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Morning coffee recapitulate phylogeny L/
