Wireless time signals. Radio-telegraphic time and weather signals transmitted from the Eiffel Tower, and their reception.
Publisher: London, E. & F.N. Spon; New York, Spon & Chamberlain
Published: 1915
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface ix; title: CHAPTER I.— INSTALLATION OF RECEIVING; title: APPARATUS; title: Aerials 1; title: Earth 6; title: Receiving Apparatus 7; title: CHAPTER II.— ORDINARY TIME SIGNALS; title: Organisation of the Service 31; title: Despatch of Ordinary Time Signals 34; title: Reception of Ordinary Time Signals 40; title: Corrections 41; title: CHAPTER III.— SCIENTIFIC TIME SIGNALS; title: Despatch of Signals 62; title: Reception of Signals 66; title: Improvement of Time transmitted 67; title: Determination of Longitudes 68; title: VI WIRELESS TIME SIGNALS; title: CHAPTER IV.— HOW TO MAKE AND CALCULATE THE COMPARISONS MADE WITH SCIENTIFIC TIME SIGNALS; title: Arrangement of Receiving Apparatus 74; title: Carrying out Comparisons 75; title: General Remarks 84; title: Calculation of the Times of the 1st and 300th Scientific Time Signals 86; title: Use of Special Scientific Signals 91; title: Table giving in Seconds the Value of a Number or Intervals of Scientific Time Signals 98; title: APPENDIX A. — TIME SIGNALS AND WEATHER REPORTS AT PRESENT TRANSMITTED DAILY FROM THE EIFFEL TOWER STATION; title: Ordinary Morning Time Signals 107; title: Ordinary Night Time Signals 108; title: Scientific Time Signals 108; title: General Weather Report 109; title: Paris Weather Report 112; title: APPENDIX B. — ADDITIONAL NOTES BY TRANSLATORS; title: Weather Reports — Augmented 114; title: Rhythmic Signals 115; title: Coincidences — Reduced Method 115; title: Weather Reports — English 118; title: Time Table for Amateurs 119; title: Norddeich Time Signals 120; title: International Time Scheme 121; title: APPENDIX C. — TABLES AND FRENCH-ENGLISH VOCABULARY; title: Call Letters (International) 121; title: Time Signals (Proposed International Stations, etc.) 121; title: Morse Code (International) 123; title: Vocabulary — French 124; title: APPENDIX D. — CHANGES IN BRITISH WEATHER REPORTS; title: Conversion Table — Mercury Inches to Millibars 127; title: " " Millibars to Mercury Inches 128; title: " " Miles per Hour to Metres per Second 129; title: " " Barometric Readings — Inches to Millimetres 130; title: Index 131; title: Plate I. to face 83