PRECISION CLOCK
Time Service Acquisition
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 5.
A series of transistors and cold cathodes powering a clock with no face or hands to a rate of thousandths of a second is now helping scientists at the Kelburn Observatory.
The clock came into operation at the beginning of this year and is the latest of an impressive array of electronic equipment acquired by the New Zealand Time Service, a division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
An officer, Mr B. R. Gibson, said the clock was the only one of its kind in New Zealand, and he knew of no other in the world. It was designed in the division and built by a firm of electronic engineers. Measurements can be made in milliseconds.
The clock is powered by a series of batteries so cannot be affected by power failures.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29714, 6 January 1962, Page 12
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