One Clock for the World
That one clock should be used to beat time for the world is the proposal of a German inventor. From some central observatory, its ticks would be broadcast instantly by wireless to the whole civilised world, giving a single accurate time.
Clocks throughout the world would be brought to agreement as close as one-hundred-thousandth of a .ccond, and the inventor’s elaborate plans include the use of television devices to synchronise the earth’s clocks with the master timepiece. At present each country sets its clocks from its own astronomical observatory by wireless and telegraph, and it is pointed out that between clocks of foreign countries there is often a discrepancy of a fifth of a second.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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120One Clock for the World Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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