[time-nuts] Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement

[Patrick Barthelow]

Longitude by Wire  by Richard Stachurski :
from Professional Surveyor Magazine, November 2003.
http://fgg-web.fgg.uni-lj.si/~/mkuhar/pouk/SG/Seminar/Astronomska_navigacija/Astronomska_navigacija_zgodovina/Professional_Surveyor_Magazine-Longitude_By_Wire_The_American_Method-Nov03.pdf


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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Jim Harman <j99harman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Gregory Beat <w9gb at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> >  As a second’s error in time will be about a nautical mile in US
> > latitudes, I wonder if anyone has measured with GPS, how good the
> original
> > surveys were?
> >
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> I think one nautical mile per second is a bit off:
>
> 86,400 sec/day
> Earth's circumference at lat. 41 is about 16,200 nautical miles, so it's
> about 16200/86400 or 0.187 mi/sec
>
> There is an interesting book "Longitude by Wire" by Richard Stachurski that
> describes efforts in the mid 19th century to improve the accuracy of
> surveys and determine the precise position of North America relative to
> Europe.
>
> This culminated in the use of pulses on telegraph lines to transfer
> observatory time to remote stations. With this technique, very careful
> measurements, and mathematical advances they were able reduce the longitude
> uncertainty to less than 10 feet.
>
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> --Jim Harman
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