NEW ELECTRIC CLOCK
HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, March 31. The annual report of the National Physical Laboratory presents a survey of progress, and achievement in many fields of scientific research undertaken in the-interests? of British industry.
The electricity - department of the laboratory devised: a new type of clock of such remarkable, accuracy that the error is only a small fraction of a second in a year, yet the clock is reasonably robust. Such high accuracy is needed in radio telegraphy, broadcasting stations and astronomical observatories. A similar clock is being constructed for Greenwich observatory, where it will be used for national times services.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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107NEW ELECTRIC CLOCK Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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