In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jack Hudler" writes: >It been mentioned here before; >http://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2004-September/017484.html > >It's a book about Alfred Loomis. >I remember (forgive my old memory) reading about his use of 3 pendulum >clocks and his discovering that varying the proximal distances had an effect >on drift.
Wonderful book, highly recommended. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts