Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
A NEW TIME SYSTEM
Synchronized ClocKs - Their Aoso-
lutely Accurate Regular
ity Tested.

Now Haven Palladium.
There lie now established In New
Haven tho only System, with any ca
pacity for extension, of synchronlEsd
clocks, /. @ clocks which, by a simple
and elective device, are kept on alb
solutely accurate time. Various at.
tempts have been made abroad and In
this country to arrange systems Of
clocks to keep uniform time, but most
of these systems have been a series of
electrical clocks or electric dials which
have been driven by an electric cur.
rent, making q jump every second,
All these systems, which work nicely
In q room and with q fair degree
Of success when the clocks are
distributed In different portions OF
ono building, have been found, when
applied to outdoor wires subject to
the varying outdoor conditions, prac-
tical failures. The principal difficulty
has been that q single break would
throw one or more clocks radically out
of time. Another system, developed
to q considerable extent In Paris, is
know as the pneumatic systom, by
which every seoonN 10 recorded by
compression of air is q series of tubes
laid In the streets and brought
to the position of tho clock. This
system, although much less lisb'e
to interruption than that of electricity,
Is such that any interruption causes
the clocks to stop. Hitherto all sys.
toms have run from q clock at one alta.
ton. The system which the Standard
Time Company has now introduced
here has worked very successfully for
years 10 London. The clocks used are
good time pieces with the motive
power furnished, BY springs or weights
They run Independently of tho cleo
trio current. The Office Of the
current Is to give one an hour, or less
frequently If desired, q signal which
sets every clock at the same time. The
signals are always set out at the even
hours and the clocks are set by bring
ling the minute hands to the XII point,
The Now Haven system, just open aut
having some fifteen or twenty clock
In circuit, has advantages owe any
system over before attempted In THU
country, the advantage of having tn,
most accurate observatory time. TIT
signala are not given from q gooG
clock kept as nearly right as possible
but are accurately given from 81 rs.
Economical clock at tho Yale obseIva
tory, the monthly variation Of whict
Is but q fraction of u second. AS tn,
system is now arranged two or tire,
different patterns of clocks are fur
nished with synohronizsrs attached
"a clock to be bought and becom,
the property of the purchaser, VIII
has nothing further to do In the mat
ter. The clock Ia hung on the wall
and for a yearly rental the clock 1
wound and kept right; and 1t Is at
tended to, when needing repairs, o
the lowest rates. Whoever has one O
these clocks will receive signal
twenty.four times a day 800 days Ii
the year. The signals are sent owe
covered wires, thus removing all dan
|, ger Of crorsing, which will occur wit
, sho bono ptbbohi VI uhSONoICa WiECr
The time given is the time of tn
state--coming from the clock whic
gives signals to all the railroads.&c.
der the s~tstutes of the state; 1t is tn
time recognized as official time If sue
. q thing can be said to exist. A note
. worthy fact Is that New Haven is tn
. first town this aide of the Atlanti,
and in fact the only town In the worl
r except London, to possess this %facilit,
New York depends on time balls an
r unreliable electric dials. Boston Is
8 the same condition. Chicago has 4
reliable time and people there are GO
erned, according to business, by OF
o of half a dozen standards. New o
: leans Ia In the same condition ar
Philadelphia Is not situated muc
: better. New Haven is the only tow
where n who desires absolutely a
/, curate time, given In a manner INTEL
= gible to everybody--on an ordinal
clock face, can have this service al
r ut q moderate cost.