The Essentials of Precision Timekeeping

The Essentials of Precision Timekeeping

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The Essentials of Precision Timekeeping

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 New Members & Lapel Pins
  3. 3 Henry B. Fried Scholarship
  4. 4 Traveling Education
  5. 5 Continuous Vs. Oscillatory Processes
  6. 6 Astronomical Phenomena: The Earliest Timekeepers
  7. 7 An Early Water Clock
  8. 8 The enemies of precision
  9. 9 Thermal expansion
  10. 10 Friction due to air resistance
  11. 11 Minimive interference of the escapement
  12. 12 Is the verge and foliot capable of precision timekeeping?
  13. 13 John Harrison's H4: The Ultimate Verge Watch
  14. 14 The cylinder escapement: an improvement on the
  15. 15 Shape Of The Balance Spring
  16. 16 The modern mechanical watch
  17. 17 Hundreds of escapements were invented in the last 500 years.
  18. 18 What we didn't talk about

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