A chronometer is a type of very accurate clock used to measure the time at sea so that a ship can precisely know where it is sailing. This chronometer was used on board HMS Beagle on its voyage ...

The Marine Type 3 follows suit with a solid titanium case resembling a vintage dive weight with a clock stuck in it, like ...

Messrs. Negus, of 140 Water Street, makers and testers of ship chronometers. A chronometer is a very delicate instrument, and must be rated for accuracy down to the thenth of a second. This is ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Ship's Chronometer : Its History and Development” inSA Supplements Vol. 29 No. 756supp(June 1890), p. 12072doi:10.1038 ...

WE have read with much pleasure your notice (vol. xv. p. 403) of Sir William Thomson's lecture on Navigation, and are prepared fully to endorse your remarks as to the value of Mr. Hartnup's system ...

His first stab at a maritime chronometer started in 1730 and resulted in the Harrison H1 which was given a sea trial in 1736. It wasn’t the very first clock designed for a ship, but it did ...

Hlavacek, for whom the clock was a family belonging, donated it Thursday to the University of Alaska Museum of the North. “It’s a clock — it’s actually a ships chronometer,” Hlavacek said.

Fine watches and jewellery retailer Wempe draws on its history of creating marine chronometers in a new collaboration with British yacht designer Tim Heywood. ‘Ship chronometers are an important part ...

This particular chronometer sailed on many ships - always issued and set, as others were, at Greenwich. But this one is famous, because in 1831 it was issued to 'HMS Beagle', the ship which ...