Harrison decoded : towards a perfect pendulum clock / edited by Rory McEvoy and Jonathan Betts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 183 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198816812
  • 0198816812
Related works:
  • Contains (work): McEvoy, Rory. Introducing the precision pendulum clock
  • Contains (work): King, Andrew. The origins of John Harrison's 'pendulum-clock' technology
  • Contains (work): Andrewes, William. Introducing Martin Burgess, clockmaker
  • Contains (work): Saff, Donald, 1937- Rescuing Martin Burgess's Clock B
  • Contains (work): Burgess, Martin. Reflections on making clocks Harrison's way
  • Contains (work): Betts, Jonathan. Adjusting and testing Clock B at the Royal Observator, Greenwich
  • Contains (work): Van Baak, Tom. Crunching the numbers : analysis of Clock B's performance at Greenwich
  • Contains (work): Hobden, M.K. Decoding the physical theory of Harrison's timekeepers
  • Contains (work): Harrison, David. Analysis of the mechanisms for compensation in Clock B
  • Contains (work): McEvoy, Rory. Update on Clock B
  • Contains (work): Charles Frodsham & Co. Completing Clock B
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Electronic version:: Harrison decoded.Summary: Brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one-hundred-times the stability of those made by his contemporaries. However, his final publication, which promised to describe the system, was a chaotic jumble of information, much of which had nothing to do with clockwork. One contemporary reviewer of Harrison's book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison's 'superannuated dotage.' The focus of this book centres on the making, adjusting, and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The modern history of Clock B is accompanied by scientific analysis of the clock system, Clock B's performance, the methods of data-gathering alongside historical perspectives on Harrison's clockmaking, that of his contemporaries, and some evaluation of the possible influence of early 18th century scientific thought.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one-hundred-times the stability of those made by his contemporaries. However, his final publication, which promised to describe the system, was a chaotic jumble of information, much of which had nothing to do with clockwork. One contemporary reviewer of Harrison's book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison's 'superannuated dotage.' The focus of this book centres on the making, adjusting, and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The modern history of Clock B is accompanied by scientific analysis of the clock system, Clock B's performance, the methods of data-gathering alongside historical perspectives on Harrison's clockmaking, that of his contemporaries, and some evaluation of the possible influence of early 18th century scientific thought.

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