> Always locate your DUTs physically orthogonal to each other. Unless you have 3 clocks. (and everybody knows what happens if you only have 2)
>From an old time-nuts message (Mar, 2009) > Allied to this discussion is the Loomis effect, discovered by the > American millionaire who had three Shortt clocks running in his > basement. They synchronised unless aligned at 120 degrees to each > other. I wonder weather they were shaking the bedrock, or maybe the > gravitational attraction between the 10 kg pendulums may have > synchronised them. (See "Tuxedo Park" by Jennet Conant) He qualified > as the first time nut. It's on page 67-68. Google for >Tuxedo-Park Shortt< gets a hit in books.google.com at page 65 which is the start of the coverage of Shortt clocks. That was long before eBay. :) -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ 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.
