Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON chronometer chronometer Is a timekeeper used usually for determining long etude at sea its mechanism is es sent lally the same as that of an or binary watch with greater exactness usually much larger in size it la fa mallar to visitors to the bridge deck of a ship as hanging in a frame of balancing rings called gimbels gimbals gim bals which prevent the motion of the ship from greatly influencing its accuracy chronometer Is derived from chronos meaning time and me tron measure it Is in the derivation of the arst half of the word that we find alie romance in its story for alie chrono meUi owes the of its name to i character in greek my theology was chronos first and chief daty of the ancients and the god of time hence the of ills name in a modern at A t |