The Beginning of the Long Dash / / Malcolm M. Thomson.
In the early days of formal timekeeping, determining the time was a specialized branch of astronomy. Now it is a branch of physics. Through decades of innovation, scientists at the Dominion Observatory and the National Research Council have created a Canadian time signal based not on the stars but o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The origin of astronomical timekeeping
- 2. Integrating the time services
- 3. The rise of the Dominion Observatory
- 4. The evolution of astronomical techniques
- 5. From pendulums to masers: clocks of the Time Service
- 6. Radio time signals
- APPENDIX A. The unit of time
- APPENDIX B. Daylight Saving Time
- Bibliography
- Index