Garfield County News | 1951-12-27 | Page 9 | Naval Observatory Clocks Are Tops

Naval Observatory Clocks Are Tops To the most of seconds and minutes have very little For that reason it is hard for us to realize the exquisite exactness with which the government tries to mark the passing of every second of The clocks in the Naval Observatory are the most accurate in the and special pains are taken to see that they remain so at all The standard clocks keep which is the division of the days into minutes and Regulation of the clocks is so exacting that the daily meaning loss or is so small that it can not be The clocks ore regulated by coincidence of the with a sidereal The clocks beat so silently that microphones must be used to magnify the beats in order that they might be heard at