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Quaint article
From: Jim Hickey
Date: 2008 Feb 21, 16:36 -0800
From: Jim Hickey
Date: 2008 Feb 21, 16:36 -0800
The link below takes you to an article written up in the New York Times from 1909. No riveting technical insight but you got to love the folksy portions of it. Motice the threat of court martial for allowing the chronometer to run out. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=3&res=9B07E0DE1438E033A25751C1A96F9C946897D6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---