On Controlling Clocks by Electricity

Walker, Charles V.

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“…Secondly, given the necessity to exhibit correct time for the SER, Walker contributed significantly by improving how the switch clock at London Bridge was controlled, in particular through the modification of the newly placed pendulum clock. 81 To some degree, the improvement of the time service and clock system at Greenwich was achieved by the active collaboration of these individuals, who had extensive scientific expertise on electricity, horology and magnetism.…”

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In Pursuit of Accurate Timekeeping: Liverpool and Victorian Electrical Horology

Ishibashi

2014

Annals of Science

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This paper explores how nineteenth-century Liverpool became such an advanced city with regard to public timekeeping, and the wider impact of this on the standardisation of time. From the mid-1840s, local scientists and municipal bodies in the port city were engaged in improving the ways in which accurate time was communicated to ships and the general public. As a result, Liverpool was the first British city to witness the formation of a synchronised clock system, based on an invention by Robert Jones. His method gained a considerable reputation in the scientific and engineering communities, which led to its subsequent replication at a number of astronomical observatories such as Greenwich and Edinburgh. As a further key example of developments in time-signalling techniques, this paper also focuses on the time ball established in Liverpool by the Electric Telegraph Company in collaboration with George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal. This is a particularly significant development because, as the present paper illustrates, one of the most important technologies in measuring the accuracy of the Greenwich time signal took shape in the experimental operation of the time ball. The inventions and knowledge which emerged from the context of Liverpool were vital to the transformation of public timekeeping in Victorian Britain.

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In Pursuit of Accurate Timekeeping: Liverpool and Victorian Electrical Horology

Ishibashi

2014

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On Controlling Clocks by Electricity

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In Pursuit of Accurate Timekeeping: Liverpool and Victorian Electrical Horology

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