Account of Improvements in Chronometers: Made by Mr. John Sweetman Eiffe
Language: English
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Print on Demand. This book focuses on a major advancement in the field of horology: the correction of a persistent error in timekeeping by chronometers subjected to temperature variations. Before the author's innovation, chronometers lost time in extreme temperatures. He describes his invention as a means to regulate the rates at which chronometers lose time in heat and cold. The book argues that this invention represents a significant improvement over previous methods of adjustment for heat and cold. The author goes into depth about an array of modications and mechanical designs for the chronometer, and details experiments conducted with each design. These designs show the inventor’s journey of innovation and experimentation, and include diagrams for each modication. The text provides a valuable record of a horological breakthrough that increased the accuracy of chronometers, contributing to advancements in navigation and timekeeping. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.…
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- Account of Improvements in Chronometers: Made by Mr. John Sweetman Eiffe
- Author
- John Sweetman Eiffe
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- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2018
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- New
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- Paperback
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- English
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- 1331940273
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- 9781331940272
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IN the winter of 1835, Mr. Eiffe informed me that he had invented arrangements for correcting one of the errors to which the best chronometers are liable (the losing rate at ex treme temperatures, whether of cold or of heat, when the compensation is adjusted so as accurately to counteract the effects of variation of warmth near mean temperature); and he communicated to me (in strict confidence) two constructions which he proposed to use for that purpose. These were the same as those represented respectively in figures I and 2, and in figure 11, of the plates attached to the following account. I had no hesitation in giving my opinion that, whatever unforeseen practical difficulties might be found in the actual introduc tion of those constructions into chronometers, the principle was correct, and admitted of being carried so far as actually to reverse the error, causing the chronometers to gain at extreme temperatures instead of losing, as is the case with all common chronometers; and, therefore, that the adjustment for equalization of rates throughout would become a question of mere manual dexterity. With my consent, therefore, Mr. Bifl'e solicited of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, authority for the trial of two chronometers at the Royal Observatory, with special reference to the steadiness of their rates at extreme temperatures. Accordingly, two chronometers containing Mr. Eiffe's improvements (marked Eifi'e 3 and Eiffe 4) were tried at the Royal Observatory in juxta-position with two good Government chronometers (earnshaw 543 and Earnshaw 819) from 1836, February 27, to June 25. In the colder season, they were exposed to the open air; in the warmer season they were heated by a fire; in the intermediate temperatures they were placed as usual in a room. The circumstances of the season were not favourable for the obtaining of. Extreme temperatures; nevertheless I was fully enabled to express a most favourable opinion on the success of the application of the principle. My Report, addressed to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, is dated 1836, June 29.
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