In describing experiments on the velocity of sound he states that " on one day and one day only, February 9, 1822, the officer's word of command ` fire ' was several times heard distinctly both by Captain Parry and myself about one beat of the chronometer [nearly half a second] after the report of the gun." [Please select]
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On the astronomer’s table in the _Herald_ office were a large map and a chronometer. [Please select]
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Moreover, her chronometer is well-regulated and gives the exact measure of the Bee's length of absence. [Please select]
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XII Necessity had made of Keith a fairly accurate human chronometer. [Please select]
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"Just gone ten," said Slag, consulting a chronometer that bore some resemblance to an antique warming-pan. [Please select]
Producing his own valued chronometer, the young man compared it with the educator's small trinket. [Please select]
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The monumental roasting-jack of a waggoners' inn and a Breguet chronometer both have trains of cogwheels geared in almost a similar fashion. [Please select]
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If there's one thing on earth that I can trust to as reg'lar as the sun, it is this chronometer (pulling it out as he spoke), and it never fails.' [Please select]
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