Gunnison Valley News | 1925-10-01 | Page 3 | New Sun Dial Accurate |

Type	issue
Date	1925-10-01
Paper	Gunnison Valley News
Language	eng
City	Gunnison
County	Sevier
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	New Sun Dial Accurate
Type	article
Date	1925-10-01
Paper	Gunnison Valley News
Language	eng
City	Gunnison
County	Sevier
Page	3
OCR Text	Show New Sun Dial Accurate Although sun dials have been satisfactory satis-factory in a general way for giving the hours, a new one has been invented that tells time to within 30 seconds. Hands are geared to the dial, which has an additional part through which a ray of light passes. The dial is improved im-proved also to correct for different positions of the sun during the different differ-ent seasons, allowing for the equation of time of. the amount of time the sun is ahead of or behind its average position. po-sition. The Inventor is Prof. W. E. Cooke, an astronomer of Sydney, Australia.
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