Time Balls, Time Guns and Glasgow's Quest for a Reliable Local Time Service

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Nov 2010

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 194 - 206 (2010).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Time Balls, Time Guns, Glasgow Observatory, Edinburgh Observatory

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Edinburgh has had a time ball since 1853 and a time gun since 1861. In Glasgow, a time ball was erected in 1857, but the service was of questionable accuracy and had ended by March 1864. A new time service involving time guns controlled by Edinburgh Observatory was proposed in 1863, but a controversial experiment using four time guns was terminated in February 1864. Later that same year Glasgow received a reliable time service whereby public clocks were controlled from Glasgow Observatory.

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