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inexperienced persons without any sacrifice of the advantages due to exactness of specifications. The importance of conforming with the specifications, both as to the apparatus and the procedure in testing, is pointed out. ## MEASUREMENT OF TIME AND TESTS OF TIMEPIECES.* THE test and certification of watches, chronometers, and other timepieces has been carried on for many years at the Kew Observatory in England, at the Besan~on Observatory in France, and at the observatories of Geneva and Neuchatel in Switzerland, but no such tests have been made for the public in this country, except for a few years at Yale University, many years ago. This line of work is now started at the Bureau of Standards, and a circular under the above title is being issued, giving the regulations under which the tests will be made, the methods employed, together with sections on the use and care of watches, and on standard time and the sources of reliable time standards with which one may make frequent comparisons of his watch. This first edition of the circular announces the regulations for the test and certification of watches only; the test of other timepieces will be taken up later. For the purposes of

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Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)

Published

1914

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)