STILL ANOTHER CONTRIVANCE FOR TIMING ATHLETIC SPORTS.
An English civil engineer has devised a mechanical contrivance for timing the racing competitors in athletic meetings. By means of a drum, revolving at the rate of one turn in fifteen seconds, and in electrical communication with each end of the course, the time may be determined down to the thousandths of a second. Round this drum would be wound a sheet of paper, marked horizontally for the number of seconds, and vertically for the number of men running, and contact would be broken by the rupture of a fine thread stretched across the course immediately in front of the starting place, and of the corresponding thread at the finish, the time of starting aud finishing being thus instantaneously recorded. This will, if successful, at least do away with much of the disputing now so characteristic of athletic contests. We shall also probably see the time of certain feats reduced.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1875, 26 February 1880, Page 3
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157STILL ANOTHER CONTRIVANCE FOR TIMING ATHLETIC SPORTS. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1875, 26 February 1880, Page 3
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