Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock

Brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one-hundred-times the stability of those made by his contemporaries. However, his final publication, which promised to describe the system, was a chaotic jumble of information,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198816812
• ISBN13: 9780198816812
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"