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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Atomic clock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
An atomic clock is a type of clock that uses an atomic resonance frequency standard as its counter.
The first accurate atomic clock, based on the transition of the caesium-133 atom, was built by Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK.
The core of the atomic clock is a microwave cavity containing the ionized gas, a tunable microwave radio oscillator, and a feedback loop which is used to adjust the oscillator to the exact frequency of the absorption characteristic defined by the behavior of the individual atoms.
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 Antique Swinging Arm Clock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A clock face is the part of an analog clock that tells time through the use of a fixed numbered dial or dials and moving hand or hands.
Battery operated digital clocks such as wrist watches use a quartz crystal oscillator for time keeping, whereas mains-powered clocks, such as bed-side alarm clocks, use typically the 50 or 60 hertz oscillation of AC power or a crystal oscillator as in a quartz movement.
Clocks such as the antique swinging arm clock are in homes and offices; smaller ones (watches) are carried; larger ones are in public places, e.g.
www.free-antique-price-guides.com /antique-swinging-arm-clock.html   (2017 words)

  
 Timeline of time measurement technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1949 - Harold Lyons develops an atomic clock based on the quantum mechanical vibrations of the ammonia molecule
2008 - Launch date for the Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space.
This page was last modified 00:29, 15 September 2005.
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