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> That is excellent news for me. I have found lately that my coachman
> seems under-employed. I would not want him to become "lazy" for lack
> of labor. I shall at once set him the task of measuring delta-T on a
> daily basis and recording his observations in an appropriate logbook.


Yabbut.... is your coachman (coachperson?) skilled in the fine art of
reading and transcribing the King's English?

--
GregR



--- frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote:

>
> Geoffrey, you wrote:
> "To this end, a book called "A Treatise on the Transit Instrument
> as Applied to the Determination of Time" was written in 1882 by
> Latimer
> Clark. Unfortunately, although Google books tantalizingly lists the
> contents of the book, it does not seem to be available."
>
> This seems to be a corrupt file. The scans are there, but they don't
> load.
> Puzzling on it for a few minutes, I discovered that the OCR version
> is
> reasonably complete (towards the upper right of the Google page,
> click "View
> plain text"). The tables, as usual, do not convert to text properly,
> but
> they're probably not relevant anyway.
>
>  From the text version, I learned,
> "The instrument is adjusted quietly by the fireside, and when the
> time
> approaches he lays the telescope in its stand and looks through it,
> and at
> the proper moment he sees the one star he is seeking pass across the
> wires
> and give him his time to the fraction of a second. This operation is,
> in
> fact, so easy that his gardener or coachman may be taught to use the
> instrument in his absence almost as accurately as himself, and such
> persons
> soon learn to take a pleasure in the occupation and in rendering
> themselves
> expert."
>
> That is excellent news for me. I have found lately that my coachman
> seems
> under-employed. I would not want him to become "lazy" for lack of
> labor. I
> shall at once set him the task of measuring delta-T on a daily basis
> and
> recording his observations in an appropriate logbook.
>
>  -FER
> :-)
>
>
>
> >
>


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