Timeballs and the Synchronisation of Clocks in mid-Victorian Liverpool
Timeballs and the Synchronisation of Clocks in mid-Victorian Liverpool
Timeballs and the Synchronisation of Clocks in mid-Victorian Liverpool
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George Biddell Airy (7th Astronomer Royal)<br />
‘<strong>in</strong> regard to regulated<br />
clocks, <strong>the</strong> best <strong>in</strong>stances<br />
<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> world are those <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Liverpool</strong> <strong>and</strong> Glasgow,<br />
which I would recommend<br />
you to see.’<br />
(Letter to B. B. Stoney, dated 1/11/1866,<br />
Papers <strong>of</strong> George Airy, RGO 6/616)<br />
Source; A. Meadows, Greenwich Observatory, 1975
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