chronometers

Three hundred years ago, the best clocks in the world were made in London and were called chronometers.

The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

Besides the cumbrous moneys, they carried several boxes of instruments, such as chronometers, air thermometers, sextant, and artificial horizon, boxes containing clothes, medicines, and personal necessaries.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

They used to fill the craft's holds from the cargo of the captured vessel; take any money or valuables, such as chronometers, that might be aboard; all firearms, gunpowder and implements of warfare had to be given up; and a squad of armed pirates covered their comrades who were operating for the benefit of the whole.

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

By Tompion's death, in 1713, daily variation was less than a minute, and by the late 19th century, marine chronometers were accurate to fractions of a second per day.

Big Time: The British Pocket Watch Jonathon Keats 2010

A visitor to the Clockmakers 'Museum in the Guildhall Library in the City of London could be forgiven for fixating on the oldest surviving self-winding watch, formerly carried by Czar Nicholas I, or for lingering over the plans and prototypes for the chronometers used to navigate the seas in the 18th century.

Big Time: The British Pocket Watch Jonathon Keats 2010

Jew who had been willing to equip the Mary Turner with two chronometers, but not with three; the Jew who had ratified the agreement of a sufficient supply to permit Daughtry his daily six quarts.

CHAPTER XIII 2010

"Captain Doane, how much could we have bought extra chronometers for in San Francisco -- good second-hand ones, I mean?"

CHAPTER XIII 2010

You said, 'Yes, sure'; and right away knew more about it than him when you wouldn't stand for buying three chronometers.

CHAPTER XII 2010

It fits fine amid exquisite examples of the horologist's craft in 'The Mastery of Time' Flammarion, 455 pages, $95, a lush collection that includes ancient sundials, ship's chronometers, room-size clocks with life-size automata, and dozens of the finest wrist and pocket watches ever devised.

Unwinding Time Sean Carroll 2011

As the chronometers turned to 2000, humans braced against Y2K doomsday scenarios of rogue computers launching missiles, erasing bank accounts, causing jetliners to crash and generally sending humankind hurtling backward.

A decade ends far differently from how it began 2009