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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Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Kinns, Roger (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed. 2024.
Series:	Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
Subjects:	Physics > History. Space. Science > History. History of Physics and Astronomy. Space Studies. History of Science.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57334-7
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