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    The ShorttSynchronome free pendulum clock is a complex precision electromechanical pendulum clock invented in 1921 by British railway engineer William...
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    Riefler pendulum clocks, accurate to about 10 milliseconds per day. In 1929 it switched to the Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock before phasing in...
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  • the founder of the electronic clock company Synchronome, which found success in 1921 with the Shortt-Synchronome clock. He was also influential in the...
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  • phase-locked loop was used in 1921 in the Shortt-Synchronome clock. Spontaneous synchronization of weakly coupled pendulum clocks was noted by the Dutch physicist...
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    Surrey, Synchronome Ltd of Alperton, north-west London, and Gillett and Johnson. ShorttSynchronome clock Pendulum clock Escapement "USNO Master Clock". Archived...
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    of power interruption. Master clock Shortt-Synchronome clock Automatic watch Elliott, Rod. "Build a Synchronous Clock". Elliott Sound. Archived from...
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  • Yvonne Shortt (born 1972), American social practice installation artist. Shortt-Synchronome clock, a free pendulum clock, patented in 1921. Polly Shortts, a...
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  • 1920s with the very accurate Shortt-Synchronome clock and later in the 1930s when quartz clocks began to replace pendulum clocks as time standards. Apparent...
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    Hamilton Shortt (1881–1971) was a railway engineer and noted horologist, responsible for the design of the Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock, a widely...
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    pendulum clocks were controlled electrically. The ShorttSynchronome clock, an electrically-driven pendulum clock designed in 1921, was the first clock to be...
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    The most accurate commercially produced pendulum clock was the Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock, invented in 1921. Its Invar master pendulum swinging...
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    Invar and Elinvar 1931 William Hamilton Shortt (1881-1971) - noted horologist who devised the ShorttSynchronome clock 1946 Frank Hope-Jones (1867–1950) -...
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    commercially produced mechanical clock was the electromechanical Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock invented by W. H. Shortt in 1921, which had an uncertainty...
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    Gascoigne reestablished the Time Service at Mount Stromlo, using two Shortt-Synchronome clocks and astronomical observing equipment that he and his colleagues...
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  • North America: Railroad chronometers 1921 - The Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock becomes the first clock more accurate than the rotation of the Earth...
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  • He served in this post until his death in 1941. Clock-wise, the Shortt Synchronome Free Pendulum clock entered service at the Royal Observatory in 1923...
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