Show u IL I GIR GIRDLE IRDLE LE AROUND AROUN T THE E EARTH EARH IN IN SEVEN VE SECONDS Ill IlI put a girdle l mound H the earth lit lil ht oven to vlas tas not the l cx ex- of oC I Ilc a ProC Prof William I 1 F. F Om Gardner W he ho begin his ax rl j InC lt In controlling time systems Homo lil JI hilly a ago agn n. n but hl hh his Inventions lions which were r. r rt l paU In hl j ha have enabled tilt the people o of lr the naval 01 in lu 11 Washington ashington toy to y do du t. t l V. very tiring thing h in r rive Five minutes s before midnight De Dt December comber cember 31 when the tho instruments for foi 00 thou Mullen ted that the tilt moment Was wan nl which maik ll the mho passing of ur un another year a connections ha had been made math I which ns U aured a fl of oC wire around 0 i i Hit tho earth and aid In III a thousand spicy cities H HIn In this CPU n try In Hawaii In the Philippines in Asia all and in l Europe I t 1 the clocks clock in hi the Ow circuit which had hall established hed began t n to announce m through a 0 series Rea of or tick tt of extra I y l tone lone ono onu for Cm each second H cond of or the he f t i ju asing hour that thal the hb end and was near neat In all riB th there lf were Just 9 of or these ticks licks Then rh n canto came Ufo the cluck clock the thc I the the the sixtieth u mil o tile the i fourth hour of or the last day ay 1 i or of the thc old year K Nest Xe V YIu 11 ar Instantly o er every overy clock in tin till the whole circuit lou loudly ly recorded lh the fact that the hc new year ha had dawned on Ott the s seventy fifth ent e fifth of longitude west from Gr Greenwich which meridian luns runs through the thc city of oC Washington At the same instant the connected timepieces In Portland Me recorded record record- cd ed th the hour at til exactly 1 a. a in m. I In Chicago the hands hantl 11 llew w hack back If r rI they Were wre not lint exactly correct and Indicated that It Was v 11 II I p. p in nl null and I that one Iwu huu hout lW more of tf tilt the old year remained on the of the tho thoIn Windy Win IVIn- II dy l C City J in Iii 11 Denver tit lit the sa same 1111 in in- I start those on l knew by th the tho Kuno clock click that U tt was 10 0 p. p m. m nUll cull I so m on the w rl around lJ h g who ha has happened Into one ammo of the ollice or of the r Union l l lh Ia at t a minute ol or two before noon nuon any uny tin day during the last twenty t years yeal ha has JH perhaps noted the peculiar habits of the tho clocks of or that at thai print tune of day of or- tho self self- winding varlet variety and they are mt tt getting gelling toddy J to tu correct any nr error which may hR have crept into their lluMi interior ments during the last twenty four hours h UI s. s Mo lust 1 t people know if it lilO they have u vcr ever Inquired ed that these clocks lucks and hundreds of if lither in III every ell city in Jn the United balled States Stales are nic in direct electrical connection with the Iho chronometer chro e- e loom route at the tho na naval nil tOI tory and that when Whenn the tho time ball hail I drops front from time the top lop of the Style Wai Wal LI and Navy a building ry VM doc clod In III the tho circuit will In instantly become cori cor cUr i oct Of Mir III s 's s I Inventions lint Bul very cr r C few people know that thal this hi method l of transmitting t line Is I s tho Uw Invention In of mil Prof William in in Jo F. F Gai at timer Iner who was horn In Iii III In l H. H t and died In Washington in III 1 after nearly thirty years years' tri service vice a as nn an em oin- plo c of tilt tho naval I Professor or or Gar Gardner cai early emb ly learned the value of f absolutely accurate acoua time fine I Evory vor sailor pallor knows linO that In order to reckon his Me he lC must have access to tu a n clu chronometer which shows s Ill time the exact time hue at tit slime somo given gl meridian and anel Greenwich Ins Ian where IH Is located lo- lo cat 1 the loyal rOY 11 iii o J 10 I has haK lung long lun been hy by all ull maritime nations nations na na- as tho the prime meridian It Is Just as CUI Important nt to lu th the sut sui- sui through a n. mineral region time the metals R in the thc earth eaith affect the compass that exact timo should he bo available and awl M fir Mr Inventions cn LIons have hav mudo this possible awl and in inconsequence consequence have l saved u hundreds of If thousands of dollar and ami h besides made malic it Il possible JJ to define exact boundary I lines linos between mining The patent papers won were taken mil ut Oct 23 3 3 INS stud Ind r Mine inc e then Il mine II have f boon been taken I nut and anti lb tilt th perfection of or the thc won won- Y Im I'm- Imn was very clearly dem- dem the tho railway llon Ilan was wa hold roan eighteen OIS months ago asu On that occasion an t map mal of the he earth firth was waR erected Q on m tho the while lot An Au electrical device was wa attached cl ai an Of the lInto signal was vay flashed fa-ched mound time the earth eUlth tho that thal II it It was lc received at al Omaha Sun San Francisco Honolulu Manila Hong llong- kong J cud and thence t through l hlO h Asia and Iliad finally ba back U to the mitt lal point WIKI ll by In a nu Hash flash h at al points shown on cm the mop map of ul Noon Sl Signal nH I. I Jh The noon coon fo signal f nl I Is transmitted from a U central clock in the naval oh- oh ol st and by this ono one cluck clock to- to with it its it duplicate tc at Mare Maro Ts- Ts butt lond California nearly every cry Cl other clock elock in iii- iii hith th the United Mexico IJo Cub Cubit n and Canada Is lt set KOI One clock In lit Inich cash ich group is of extra lute und mood acts nelt as us the tho major cluck clock of ur the tho company In ad addition at- at to tits the dolly dally orders front flIn the ih Ih this major clock sets j all under its Us command once oneo every hour Moreover cr time tune LIme halls hulls in central time Ihne where it il Is lit desired lo 01 lint thc they fall at nt noon anon must be bc bedi di tipped dropped by their local major clock Mitre I ir It operated directly from Washington they ihy iii must fall at ll II J 1 h in thin that lime Ihne bell belt rust t ath the tho dial of or the thc transmitting elu Hook clunk I on tin the thc same shaft shaH with 1111 the sec ond oc-ond hand hInd IM lei an nn extra h wheel hll ha sixty t teeth teals one Co for every vf second that i is It U would lure hove but hut for the tho h or nt the tha I 1 ninth lIly I hall and the live c ln the R sixtieth th T Tangent Ot ml to In ihU wheel 1 I Is n a spring through which is passed IJa aj current Oio ond of or Abe tho S is iv not limit fastened c and atthe at the tho point nearest t the wheel there here f fIt Is a It projecting nib At t eaCh Jadi h bent beat at of or the tho pendulum three wheel jumps forward on ono oat tooth which tooth sl lkc s the Ute projecting point ild must push lUsh It Il I Jn In to I pus Thus Iho ho J f spring is dha at Ut its itH file fl c culland end cull and the thc cl electric cle circuit i is broken tin this 1 On an cm ll adjacent table an r armature that was wn being h held n do upon il electromagnet i runa u et ny 11 1 this thiN eui rent 1 is hI in- in In-I In euch ouch time lime the tho circuit I it broken it il u against t a u 1 metal post and thus Ihus closes dOH another circuit which sends cn n n. tick through h every Ivey telegraph Int instrument nt with which It tins has been pul put In connection cOl These l' l preliminary ticks licks s prepare lie Hie for rut th the final anal YU way noon signal To 11 drop the he lime hue balls and sol tiel et the Iho clucks clocks s requires a surer action of the Iho magnets electro than is ix gus guaranteed U by tho Limo touches of oC the thc toothed wheel the spring Out of or the thc rim run of lie tho felloe fellon o of th time the therefore thc and extending backward parallel 11 01 to UH its axis projects a n post nn an Inch Ilich high and about t l VIce twice the diameter of oC an un ol ordinary Chess diess pin Al At tho Iho sixtieth th second beat heal o of uC the time last minute that post POM JH sos presses against l another similar spring in nn ut electric circuit and i remains re- re o- o mains in linn firm th there fill far mot c than half n a second It is this d 6 1 t I tl cJ Ute tilt bat bals s and JIll I pin that hat drops Z r. l U UY I sett et lh lh the c loch Y J l I l i i. i i Ki- Ki attended tl ti Pi or r I eally cally C evory l' l l' l hold held hi to I the 0 I between a tl I government SO ar a lcd him Rini a gold ine mcd- mcd ial i- i I no tit w a It- It t- t I al and Lt nt and 1 9 I nc tl the trails l of V Venus nu nt It Li 1 Vladivostok 1 In in- f anti and h he heas hUS as US l' l as UK one of ur the Cult rn men Mort of oC his Ills lime hue time by hy tho time of tho I world Ills timo s system tein hah gab been 1 established In halt half the lie of uC tit the tho c earth Chile Chilo its WR-S 11 1 tithe one u of If time the t to I adopt the s system tem Whal the ChilI Chil- Chil can oan minister Ju thought h of or Professor 01 I Gardner I Is shown iii in this letter I. I ad mid- addressed tl dressed 1 to lo Secretary lime 1 L Legation of or if Chile ton D. D C. C Jan 31 21 n. 1 Sir Sir lr During the hu month of July of ir tho last lisl 11 I 1 received from from the tho hap han tl of or the navy al t Chile instructions to tu acquire the Iho h Implements an and Instruments neco necessary ary nl for forr the establishment n of a Ii hall ball time time hora hera In station at V Valparaiso recommending mending rose Ino in order to obtain tile the most perfect of oC their kind to previously previously pre pro bushy consult commit the opinion of tiC competent competent com com- pcr persons ons in this county With this his low I 1 had the tho good fortune fortune for for- tune tun to lo communicate with Cap Capt I. I R. R I I. I I. I Pythian Ihl n of the naval observatory ato tI of th the United States State and anti with lliN Mr I W. W 1 P. P Car Gardner nN employed i In tl lh the t saute same to whom Capt Pythian recommended rec Immediate attention to u this matter armlet Mr 11 GUI bird most inmost mo t graciously offered me at al once th lh till aid alit of i 1 lual t n e with ath his c drawIng k 1 Inn for IH i hall ball tints lime hom time the on Icet of the en I purnio ul Mint on at time tho Ihl rial of nd cast C ho nut r hc sith thu ho h ho y his p c gae c 1 1 fi rC acquisition or of then t attention n to the antI and il ls s- s in b y of his that tho J nt rested t d L e nl l be 0 C 1 S 'S l s n t r oia 1 n carried out ur of informed My ly I government bring being letter r these meets act ha has In hi a of the navy time runs to tn MI y to o Cap chilly chill In InsL me ruin I and amI to lo 11 Gardner par pur- the thu latter to gratl- gratl mort t of its It mo an ite C they giro c time Lade for Ii this lIls occasion 1 Ott rendered on BU tu L kindly out of r respect to our country y much pl In iii com cony compliance U 1 t s S ics vc me Inc lash or of tho with the tilt of C Chile hi c. c I to m make malo a o o minister of oC tho rho navy acquainted with time ihu excellency paid sald your yom chrum circumstances being nt It comtes accustomed with om that your will have the kind kindness excellency your ness to convey con to tu the tho g gentleman mentioned men 1 Honed t through li h the proper charm chann channI i 1 th the grateful sentiments of my got gov- j I I avail all myself of this his occasion to lo renew to your mUl excellency the thc U assurance of or the cUll consideration with which I l have th tho honor hono to tu b be your excellency C M obedient t servant DOMINGO DO GANA Ills IJ is Excellency the tho or of I th time the l fatted Stales Slides u of J America IciL L |