THE EXACT TIME
TO 1000 th SECOND
Our clocks and watches may soon be regulated by the vibrations of a quartz plate, set in a new "super-, clock" just delivered to> Greenwich Observatory. As soon as the new timekeeper, known as a "quartz-os-cillator," is in full working order, the 18,000,000 yearly diallers ol "Time" as well as listeners to the BBC signal "pips," will be directly affected (comments a London daily). Present errors in time, although fractional, Avill.be. reduced. For the neAv clock, it is hoped, Avill be accurate to the thousandth part of a second —the most accurate clock of its type in the Avorld. Hence the signals which are sent out by Greemvich Observatory every day .to the Post Office and the BBC Avill be. even more accurate than before. Not only the public of Great Britain, but also ships at sea Avill benefit. Time—exact time —marches on. Designed in the National Physical Laboratory at Tecklington, the> clock is all-British in make.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 1, 9 January 1942, Page 2
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164THE EXACT TIME Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 1, 9 January 1942, Page 2
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