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Time ball book recently published
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2025 Jan 4, 14:44 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2025 Jan 4, 14:44 -0800
The latest issue of Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage has a review of "The World of Visual Time Signals for Mariners: Time Balls Time Guns, Time Lights and Other Signals," edited by Roger Kinns (who wrote most of the chapters). https://www.sciengine.com/JAHH/doi/10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2024.04.27 The book is published by Springer and costs $200 in hard copy. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-57334-7 -- Paul Hirose sofajpl.com