Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON I 1 chronometer HE chronometer Is a timekeeper TUB used usually tor for determining longitude at sea its mechanism Is essentially senti sent ally lally the same as that of an ordinary watch with greater exactness usually much larger la in size it Is familiar to visitors to the bridge deck of a ship as hanging in a frame ame of balancing rings called gimbals gimbels gim bals which prevent the motion of the ship from greatly influencing its accuracy chronometer Is derived from I chronos meaning time and metron measure it Is in the derivation of the first half of the word that we find end the romance in its story for the chronometer owes the origin of its ita name to a character in greek mythology th ile he was chronos first and chief deity of the ancients and the got of time hence the perpetuation of his name in a modern timepiece 1 |