World of Visual Time Signals for Mariners

Part I: Development of Visual Time Signals.- Chapter 1: Foundations.- Chapter 2: Determination of Longitude and Chronometer Rating.- Chapter 3: Ideas for Visual Time Signals.- Chapter 4: The Greenwich Time Ball and its Evolution.- Chapter 5: Time Ball Supply by Maudslay, Sons & Field after 1852.- Chapter 6: Admiralty Lists of Visual Time Signals after 1880.- Chapter 7: British and Irish Time Signals for General Use.- Part II: Visual Time Signals for Mariners around the World.- Chapter 8: Introduction to Part II.- Chapter 9: Worldwide Evolution of Visual Time Signals after 1880.- Chapter 10: British Isles.- Chapter 11: France, Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar.- Chapter 12: Germany and Danzig.- Chapter 13: The Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia.- Chapter 14: Russia, Finland and Latvia.- Chapter 15: The Mediterranean.- Chapter 16: South Africa.- Chapter 17: West and East Africa, and Yemen.- Chapter 18: Mauritius.- Chapter 19: Indian Subcontinent.- Chapter 20: Southeast Asia.- Chapter 21: China, Japan and Korea.- Chapter 22: Australia.- Chapter 23: New Zealand.- Chapter 24: Canada, Newfoundland and Bermuda.- Chapter 25: The United States of America, including Hawaii.- Chapter 26: Central America, The West Indies and South America.- Chapter 27: Atlantic Islands.- Chapter 28: Concluding Remarks.

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• Navegação e marinharia
• Tempo (cronologia), sistemas de tempo e padrões
• História da Ciência
• História marítima
• Física
• Sociedade e cultura: geral
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000

Astronomical History of Time Guns and Time Balls;Early Methods for Calculating Lunar Distances;Early Methods of Measuring Astronomical Time;History of Chronometers;Time Signals for Mariners