Open AccessTompion clock goes home
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2010.51404_15.x
Subject(s) - greenwich , escapement , observatory , space observatory , geodesy , computer science , meteorology , astronomy , geology , physics , infrared , soil science
A replica of one of Thomas Tompion's 1676 clocks has been installed in the Octagon Room at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the space built for the original instrument – the first time for 300 years that a year‐going clock with 13‐foot pendulum and prototype “dead‐beat” escapement will occupy the original Wren space.