); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY On 9/21/07, Bill Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone care about how we got to where we are? I certainly do. The time and astronomy exhibits at the Franklin Institute Science Museum sparked and interest in these subjects in me as a child...alas now more of a theme-park tourist attraction than a museum. From an HF receiver permanently tuned to WWV to a working model of the Strasbourg astronomical clock, much fodder for young minds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_astronomical_clock Last summer I was fortunate to make a bit of a pilgrimage to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, where they have a delightful "Time Gallery" http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.20428 Some photos from my trip: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiel/201078081/in/set-72157594201000407/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiel/190859663/in/set-72157594201000407/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiel/200953067/in/set-72157594201000407/ A good read on a Smithsonian exhibit on the history of timekeeping in the US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0821227793/ My horology tags: http://del.icio.us/MaggieL/horology -- Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP SCWCD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://voicenet.com/~maggie AOPA 925383 -- Amateur Radio Station K3XS -- ARRL 39280 -- AMSAT 32844 "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."-A.N.Whitehead _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
