WIRELESS TIME CHAIN.
UNKING UP PACIFIC ISLANDS. SYDNEY PROPOSAL. (Received 10.20 a.m.) i' . H SYDNEY, this day. .' - The Government Astronomer has sufc. '■'■- mitted a proposal to the Premier forW fixing the longitude of the Pacific Islands ' by means of astronomical observations, combined with wireless time signals.- ,ft ' is proposed to compare the time at Syd- I ney with either Suva or Apia by neut . of a wireless time vernier (or gauge) rt ; Awanui, the station in the north of New V Zealand, and then compare Suva time with that at Lick Observatory in.,Cali--' fornia by the vernier at Honolulu. This would make possible a chaiaof wiielesttime signals round the world for the. we .4 \ of navigators. In fixing the longitude of places in ■ different parts of the globe by means of ■,'•■: astronomical observations—that ie,- qV serving the exact time that a certain*?® star crosses th e meridian of the plaosV at which the observations are made laid then calculating the difference betweav: any two observations—the difficulty /n reaching that exactness which is essutial has been in synchronising -the chronometers registering the time at ilie various observation points. Even with submarine telegraphs errors have crept '
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 159, 5 July 1916, Page 6
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