Yes, the book about Loomis by Jennet Conant is highly recommended. The
"time nut" pages are here:
http://leapsecond.com/pages/loomis/Loomis-Tuxedo-Conant-p66-p70.pdf
Besides being the man behind LORAN, and a hundred other clever ideas, he
also pushed the state of the art in timekeeping, comparing the world's
best pendulum clocks against the best quartz clocks:
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1931-RAS-Analysis-Loomis-Chronograph-Brown-Brouwer.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1931-RAS-Precise-Measurement-Time-Loomis.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1932-Modern-Precision-Clocks-Loomis-Marrison.pdf
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lee_Loomis
"Alfred Lee Loomis (1887—1975) A Biographical Memoir by Luis W. Alvarez"
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/loomis-alfred.pdf
"Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That
Changed the Course of World War II"
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.1570779
"Talking with Alfred"
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shapin/files/shapin_lrbtuxedopark.pdf
"Alfred Lee Loomis - Obstetric ultrasound"
http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/loomis.html
"The scientist-tycoon whose work on radar helped win WWII"
http://www1.lasalle.edu/~didio/reviews/rev_tuxedo_park.htm
/tvb
On 5/12/2020 4:24 PM, Bob Martin wrote:
Does anyone know about Alfred Loomis and his
early precision time measurements?
According to the article in the link below, he
was also involved in WWII radar and the creation of Loran.
http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/loomis.html
bob
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