Introducing the Precision Pendulum Clock

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Rory McEvoy

Published:

2020

Publisher:

Oxford University PressOxford

Abstract This chapter provides historical context to the development of the precision pendulum clock. It primarily looks at the historical astronomical clocks at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; their use, acquisition, and modification to demonstrate that there was continual desire for better timekeeping in the Observatory. It argues that the core theoretical principals in clock making began with Robert Hooke’s demonstration to the Royal Society in 1669 and remained largely unchanged through to the obsolescence of pendulum time standards in the mid-1900s. By studying historical experiments into the effects of weather variation on pendulum clocks, it will familiarise the reader with the physical effects on pendulum clocks that are critical to the study of Martin Burgess’s Clock B.

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