KEEPING CLOCKS RIGHT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7729, 24 February 1909, Page 1

KEEPING CLOCKS RIGHT.

To set tho clocks of a big city b> electrical waves, and keep them uni form m time —this is the latest facilitj said to have been afforded to municipalities by a magician m tho science oi Marconics. The inventor is a Viennese, and hit name is Franz Morawetz. He has been experimenting for some years, bui it is only within recent days that he has thoroughly perfected his invention. At first it was found that atmospheric upheavals and other disturbing 1 factors rendered his process futile when at every moment m the day the receiving clock operated on by the transmitter was attuned to the action of the latter, the result being that high winds and great disturbances of the air upset the proper - action and course of the electric wave. In the case of the present contrivance, tho objective clock is said to be isolated during fifty-nine seconds m each minute, m which time it is insensible to all emissions of electrical currents. In the sixtieth second, however, the receiving apparatus, hitherto idle, is automatically brought into circuit with the transmitter. No two clocks travel at precisely tho same speed, and since there must be a divergence from a given standard, the waves directed from the transmitter of the central clock—the standard timeproceed to adjust the objective timeteller to the standard of "headquarters," or the exact sun-time.