(GREENWICH) The Greenwich Time Signal System

Published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1876

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(GREENWICH) The Greenwich Time Signal System. In: Nature, vol 14, no. 342 and 344, 1 June 18 and 15 June 1876, pp 50-52 (in the issue of pp 41-64) and pp110-113 (pp 85-124), with two good illustrations of the instrumentation. The two complete weekly issues offered here, extracted from a larger bound volume also offered with the scarce wrappers (and ads), though detached. VG, crisp, tidy copies. "THE GREENWICH TIME SIGNAL SYSTEM. In Nature for April 1 of last year (vol. xi. p. 431) we gave a description of the new Sidereal Standard Clock of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Fundamentally important as is this clock in all that concerns its relation to exact astronomical science, it performs also another and more immediately practical duty, that of regulating the time of great part of the United Kingdom. And we propose now to trace the connection existing between this purely astronomical clock and those by which the daily business of our lives is arranged."--from the article.

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• Title: (GREENWICH) The Greenwich Time Signal System
• Publisher: Macmillan & Co., London
• Publication Date: 1876
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
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