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 ...

Long before the term was a watch accuracy certification, a chronometer was a clock used on ships to track Greenwich Mean Time ...

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 ...

Last week we received an original Hamilton Model 21 marine chronometer, perhaps the most famous timepiece of World War II. While no mechanical timekeeping device can match the accuracy of today’s ...

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.

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 ...