On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:20:18 +0100, Jan Fredriksson wrote: >Can anyone point to some good reading on John Harrison, >who in the 18th century devoted his life to making the best >timekeepers ever built and who also constructed and built >the first usable marine chronometer.
I liked the book 'Longitude' very much - an excellent story! "I think I may make bold to say that there is neither any other Mechanism or Mathematical thing in the World that is more beautiful or curious in texture than this my [longitude] Time-keeper." (by John Harrison) Question, aren't such clocks already a kind of 'digital' clocks, using ecapement mechanismn to force the drive to run stepwise alike run by dripping water? regards Arnold _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
