The chronopher is the name of the wonderful instrument which now supplies not one city alone, but the whole of England with the correct time. This marvellous piece of machanism is in direct communication with the Greenwich Observatory and with some of the principal cities of the kingdom, and precisely at 10 o'clock a.m. the hour is flashed, not only to those stations, but to eve.-y post-office in the country, so that all time is regulated to the twentieth part of a second. Time guns are fired every day at 1 o'clock p.m., at Newcastle and Shields, by batteries connected with the chronopher, and all the prominent watchmakers in London receive the exact second every -hqjir from the same iustrument. Under these remarkable regulations, the uniformity of time all over the kingdom is as near perfect as it can be made by modern science.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 223, 6 September 1878, Page 3
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144Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 223, 6 September 1878, Page 3
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