Re: [time-nuts] Simon Winchester: The Perfectionists

2018-05-08 Thread William H. Fite
Bravo, bravo, bravo! On several occasions I have pointed out that there is more to time-nuttery than striving to achieve an Allen deviation measured in zeptoseconds. The silence in response is always deafening. If I want to struggle with phase angles of billionths of a degree, I can go down to my

Re: [time-nuts] Simon Winchester: The Perfectionists

2018-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20180508073640.64e72406...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu rray writes: >about the clocks in Oxford chiming midnight in friendly disagreement. Terry Prachett has a lovely description of how the clocks of Ank-Morpork chimes in "Men At Arms": Noon in

[time-nuts] Simon Winchester: The Perfectionists

2018-05-08 Thread Hal Murray
In 'The Perfectionists' Simon Winchester Looks At History Of Precision Engineering https://www.npr.org/2018/05/07/608590826/in-the-perfectionists-simon-wincheste r-looks-at-history-of-precision-engineering KELLY: You write about that in such a personal way in the book. You include the detail