- A
marine chronometer is a
precision timepiece that is
carried on a ship and emplo**** in the
determination of the ship's
position by
celestial navigation...
-
traditional gimbaled double box and also in a deck
watch for
larger ships for
transferring time from the
box marine chronometer(s) for
position fixes. The...
- of all
chronometers listed here is
either box or pocket. A
boxed chronometer is
mounted on
gimbals attached to its
box. A
pocket chronometer is in the...
- A
clock or
chronometer is a
device that
measures and
displays time. The
clock is one of the
oldest human inventions,
meeting the need to
measure intervals...
- 1776) was an
English carpenter and
clockmaker who
invented the
marine chronometer, a long-sought-after
device for
solving the
problem of how to calculate...
-
Longitude by
chronometer is a method, in navigation, of
determining longitude using a
marine chronometer,
which was
developed by John
Harrison during...
-
chronometer factories. At the peak of the Arnold-Earnshaw
contretemps in the 1780s,
prices had come down to
about £80 for an
Arnold box chronometer and...
- a two-inch
transit instrument, and an eight-day, one-half-second
box-
chronometer.
Shortly before this
period Tebbutt had
begun to
record meteorological...
- John Arnold's
earlier work,
further simplified the
process of
marine chronometer production,
making them
available to the
general public. He is also known...
- A
nautical chronometer made by
Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1828), and once part of the
equipment of HMS Beagle, the ship that
carried Charles Darwin on his...
