The World of Visual Time Signals for Mariners Time Balls, Time Guns, Time Lights and Other Signals /
This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for accurate navigation at sea. They followed development of chronometers which were carried in ships to show mean time at Greenwich, the chosen prime me...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Series: | Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57334-7 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Development of Visual Time Signals
- Chapter 1: Foundations
- Chapter 2: Determination of Longitude and Chronometer Rating
- Chapter 3: Ideas for Visual Time Signals
- Chapter 4: The Greenwich Time Ball and its Evolution
- Chapter 5: Time Ball Supply by Maudslay, Sons & Field after 1852
- Chapter 6: Admiralty Lists of Visual Time Signals after 1880
- Chapter 7: British and Irish Time Signals for General Use
- Part II: Visual Time Signals for Mariners around the World
- Chapter 8: Introduction to Part II
- Chapter 9: Worldwide Evolution of Visual Time Signals after 1880
- Chapter 10: British Isles
- Chapter 11: France, Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar
- Chapter 12: Germany and Danzig
- Chapter 13: The Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia
- Chapter 14: Russia, Finland and Latvia
- Chapter 15: The Mediterranean
- Chapter 16: South Africa
- Chapter 17: West and East Africa, and Yemen
- Chapter 18: Mauritius
- Chapter 19: Indian Subcontinent
- Chapter 20: Southeast Asia
- Chapter 21: China, Japan and Korea
- Chapter 22: Australia
- Chapter 23: New Zealand
- Chapter 24: Canada, Newfoundland and Bermuda
- Chapter 25: The United States of America, including Hawaii
- Chapter 26: Central America, The West Indies and South America
- Chapter 27: Atlantic Islands
- Chapter 28: Concluding Remarks.