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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 343696, member: 25"]The idea of a pendulum clock at sea seemed an absurdity until I found out how they proposed to isolate the inertial frame of the movement and pendulum from that of the ship. The ball joint suspension was a reasonable try, just not good enough for the purpose.</p><p>Obviously some museum is the place for this interesting device.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 343696, member: 25"]The idea of a pendulum clock at sea seemed an absurdity until I found out how they proposed to isolate the inertial frame of the movement and pendulum from that of the ship. The ball joint suspension was a reasonable try, just not good enough for the purpose. Obviously some museum is the place for this interesting device.[/QUOTE]
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