Yes, that is one of the original 1843 dipleidoscope designs. All the
original black finish seems to have been polished away, however.
This original design used a lot of expensive brass. Later models used a
cast brass "{scroll" base and a dipleidoscope body machined from a round
brass bar; this
Hi Larry:
Yes, please.
Here's my Dent Dipleidoscope:
http://www.prc68.com/I/Dent.shtml
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Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:23
I would be quite interested in reading your presentation also.
Thank you
Paul
WB8TSL
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Larry McDavid
> wrote:
>
> > I gave a presentation on the Dent Dipleidoscope at the Harvard conference
> > of the North Am
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Larry McDavid wrote:
> I gave a presentation on the Dent Dipleidoscope at the Harvard conference
> of the North American Sundial Society in 2013. If anyone is interested, I
> can provide a pdf of that presentation. The presentation includes history,
> detailed exp
So, what did railroads, clock makers and financial institutions use for
accurate time before 1900? If you were in London, you could subscribe to
a service in which a lady carried a mechanical chronometer to the
Greenwich Observatory in the morning and then made a circuit to
subscribers, allowin