Time and tide: pendulum clocks and gravity tides
<p>Tidal fluctuations in gravity will affect the period of a pendulum and hence the timekeeping of any such clock that uses one. Since pendulum clocks were, until the 1940s, the best timekeepers available, there has been interest in seeing if tidal effects could be observed in the best perform...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2020-09-01
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| Series: | History of Geo- and Space Sciences |
| Online Access: | https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/11/215/2020/hgss-11-215-2020.pdf |