You can watch the PBS American Experience program on him, "The Secret of
Tuxedo Park" here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/secret-tuxedo-park/#part01
David N1HAC
On 5/12/20 7:56 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
Yes, the book about Loomis by Jennet Conant is highly recommended. The
"time nut" pages are here:
http://leapsecond.com/pages/loomis/Loomis-Tuxedo-Conant-p66-p70.pdf
Besides being the man behind LORAN, and a hundred other clever ideas, he
also pushed the state of the art in timekeeping, comparing the world's
best pendulum clocks against the best quartz clocks:
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1931-RAS-Analysis-Loomis-Chronograph-Brown-Brouwer.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1931-RAS-Precise-Measurement-Time-Loomis.pdf
http://leapsecond.com/pend/pdf/1932-Modern-Precision-Clocks-Loomis-Marrison.pdf
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lee_Loomis
"Alfred Lee Loomis (1887—1975) A Biographical Memoir by Luis W. Alvarez"
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/loomis-alfred.pdf
"Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That
Changed the Course of World War II"
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.1570779
"Talking with Alfred"
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shapin/files/shapin_lrbtuxedopark.pdf
"Alfred Lee Loomis - Obstetric ultrasound"
http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/loomis.html
"The scientist-tycoon whose work on radar helped win WWII"
http://www1.lasalle.edu/~didio/reviews/rev_tuxedo_park.htm
/tvb
On 5/12/2020 4:24 PM, Bob Martin wrote:
/Does anyone know about Alfred Loomis and his />/early precision time measurements?
/>//>/According to the article in the link below, he />/was also involved in WWII radar and
the creation of Loran. />//>/http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/loomis.html />//>/bob/
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