My mention of Alfred Loomis prompted me to get the book out and I found this quote (p. 70 of the hardcover edition):
" Loomis would remain a "time nut" for the rest of his life, according to Luis Alvarez, who recalled that Loomis always wore "two Accutrons -- one on his right wrist and one on his left wrist." He would check them every day against WWV (the standard frequency broadcasting station of the National Bureau of Standards), and if one was gaining a half second on the other, he would wear it on the outside of his wrist instead of the inside, so that gravity changed the rate of the tuning fork and the two watches tracked each other, and WWV, "to within less than a second a day." " I know that at least one of us (not me!) was photographed in his younger days wearing one watch on each wrist... John _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
