Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1927, Page 26

Lo THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. 31, 1927—-PART 1. point of all longitudes in the United West of here last night when an auto g ere : i aQ Qispatched this morning to_the scenc n 1 - jl‘gfl:r‘lehe‘:{\"rean"\(;?:éh:’r:’)zn'r:’?cnzlllsl‘:}:fig- States, 5 hours 8 minutes 15.78 sec.\ALASKA CRAFT AGROUND !; Piie aneldent. an@ithe ot mvr(v'\dv nobile driven by Jake McDonald ' 1 i i X S B i b 9% 2 o T nds, wes! £ Gry vich, passes | Rogers of the Pacitic Steamship | struck him as h ang i Uncle Sam’s Time Expert and Master Clock | | v ‘ariicuiariy, never, nave been | onda, | weit of Greemwicn, passes| | FOG SENDS 97 ASHORE | i i°5crs,of ', b2ci Sietmly irueks him e he s chasing R S RO 4 { Co p y pvercome. Washington 0 ] i«:::;ml(’l:rlx’u vever. are in almost | clockhouse. This also is 38 degrees eeding to the aid of the Watson| McDonald was released on buil | A | Lk comd: which s a strong |53 minutes and 14 seconds north | p, - 3 | throngh the foz. befiditigithe - variieE 66/ the coronccis ! 7 f 3 la “'::l\c(-!;t a8 ilx:lulr M \""l‘n\!\tu‘-lnl tront | intitude. Al surveys in this coun. | Facific Coast Vessel on Way *o| “rp’ Admiral Watson, en route to | jury N i o praiation of the phenomena try are made with reference to this| geattle Strikes Ivory Island Seattle from Ataskan ports. reported s 3 3 & | et % 1ngible pol ‘ashin: | s o the Bull Hi it ation a i > i . — : ’ Mr. Sollenberger returned recently | intanzible point in Washington. | S A Phips was | Nineteen students of the freshm. £ 1l — ea rince Rupert. nid nm"x ne Mle; v |“vh|nl;c gantgall B v | By th ‘N i lem( S vy lass ¢ vard. who have take : mination stests by_me £ radic Mayor to Visit Camp. e s | The Wats 52 s t year's course In naval scle Standard Clocks, Never Set ‘ i i i 4 e . ik '\i::|- m'::l}‘u‘\\l:‘(r I‘xll;‘\: Special nm«}:v»h to The Star. 4 | VICTORIA. B . - crew of 45 and a car and tactics are now on a two.weeks: i : | W H ongte ey " ¢ & aground 1 dense fo salmon. | training cruise on the erdrea © s 3 B N # 1 1 ude, as now map-| FREDERICK. Md., July 30.—Mayor | "I8 @8round in a der . trafning ™ ceuta superdread ped, are exact as measured by a me- < cific Const Steamship Co.'s vessel 4 T e E Found Slightly Wrong at e 3 i > 4' H dium which moved with the speed of | “loyd C. Culler and the Board of | iq1" Watson, is ashore off | AUTO KILLS SHERIFF. 5 b 5 light. No noteworthy time diserep- | Aldermen of this city will be guests [iand, near Prince Rupert, I - U il ancles were discovered, which tends!of the 1Ist Maryland Regiment, in Tes wireless station Each Test. ? i | to prove that the star observation My a0 de, Ma., Wildny: when Lof A ss8 me: > said the | aupney . July 30 (B—D: | erences are not fundamental but the | SR _ ik afidt ciew: B 186t the : { Mg G i &0 | Saiila s EluTs R AETRoT Gov. Albert C. Ritchie will review the | yoice) | Hose, sheriff of Washinston County. Y THOMAS R. HENRY. . 4 | It is worthy of note that the z sgiment and inspect the camp. | The steamship Salvaze King waslwas killed on the old Spanish trai Onethousandth of a sccond— i YR i | Such an evanescent atom of time s | fails to register on the photographic i G . | plate of the normal human conscious- 1 ness as it crosses the hairline of the | present iy the impenetrable future into the equally impenetrable past Yet it is not altogether an imaginar it of duratic nd philosophers. ¢ can_happen wave of or a radio wave, can travel nearly miles, . turning on it move m inch. An even Torence means success failure for dclierte scientific experi ments Moreover, it represen about a trillionth of a human life, calculated on the blical span of three score and 160 Secl to Reduce Error. An accuracy closely approaching thos figure is attained the time tien of the Unite 4 Naval O s ¥ A 15 , 1idd servatcry, which furnishe - % i3, & 5 % 3 B . 0 ° ard by which the eclocks and watches X 5 & -4 i of the Nation are set. One-thou §ota & Tk i o of a second is a span of no | £ 3 - S sid e import to Paul § berger, einte astronomer, who t this work, and the con-| s 2t of the observatory staff | R S i to reduce still further the probable 2 FAS ; R, Pt 4 - [’ error inherent in the delicacy of their | [ . T S : ’ [ observations. | S i el i S 3 Absolutely correct time is unattain- | [HSCEERENEECS SR Coha A able, of course, by any mechanisms | available to human beinzs. But, after vear, as instruments of inc - ing delicacy are con: neted, the borderline betw 1 time and essness, which never can be| AUL SOLLENBERGER ed on earth, grows narrower. e < aster clocks used in the caleu of the exact tin e Naval Observatory scientists, | at the Naval Observa . have a clock of almost abso-| — e AERRs R 3 | studded with stars. All the stars, like which will ren; finitely in | which the time changs ccording to sky from East to West, ri Sun Has Complications. | hina " the- opposite side. The nctual or e i i S g oo s of one star—the sun—for | variation, however, is never mare than L e Ent Fol Seqiats ) sy i a time standard is very |a half hour on loth sides of the line. 4 d s d 4 d s da" s da" fa 7 nly apparent. The stars themselv ent and has become fixed in the 3,\: one point in the Pacific Ocean the - 00" e afl - oor e e r a 4 S e tme | human mind. When this star s |line is very crooked, having been laid Sut baitl honse for | directly overhead it is high noon in | d most of the inhabited is- . Pos Lons LAANES for ithe papuiat Time i measured | lands one siue and nothing but the human observer, due to the rapid | ;€ 9 pr p SR o sther side. 1f this wer rotation ot this planet. v | SteBrabie o S EunEiEe o, not so inhabitants of one istand woull Change Little. | Th: v very good watch, indeed, | find themee v ahead of their A sclected star is due to over | Ut i subject to various compi relatives on a e the vidian of Washington—the | Which make the other and more d Transmitting Clocks Set. north and south line across the sky |t s t guidesavhen absglute | 3 The time siznals are sant out by the directly above the al Observatory at = 5 For the. i Naval Observatory from special mean 1t a definitely known instant. From | For the earth not only is tu s MBI £ > idon year to year this changes very little. | 01 its own axis but is moving bt anae actual change of position, mot | the sun once a year over a vast circle | tain elsctiic s ted with the rotation of the | approximatel ) miles in diame- | ’ e slio Wiive eTont , has been observed among the | ter. So the rent pc | ok v |vl & Bl‘ml‘l‘m stars, but it is too slight to be | among the ses from day to fore each signal th taken into consideration in the cal-|Cty. Even if the earth did not rotate | the <& oo maten itk et D GAY bo ey : its own axis the sun would D ke e For the purpose of observing the cE onearaipen Decause tof | N8 SO L SAE SRE s A0 SR stars the Naval Observatory ~uses motion around it Hence | ime. In making the comparison it is : : small telescopes, knows as transit tele- | inevitable corrections would be nec: ma soies. ‘The Sbinch. equatorial tol: | Iy If lime ohuervations wre takon | IeCTHAIY 1o take into consideration —as the result of years of preparation—as scope, which remained for many years | from the sun. Some days, even some | the constantly changing difference be- 3 the largest i ; s, would Rerion ter | tween star gest in the world, has no place | hours, would be longer or shorter | fWeen star time and mean sun (4 1, e St e b g G et on [ e T the result of millions of dollars in earnings turned rgidity and pivoted so that they can | the fact that the earth makes a com. |2nd from 9:35 p.m. until 10 p.m. da be rotated fr olt L makes 1 oM | are sent out on each second from north to south but | plete revolution in slightly less than | 0, 600 9ty ‘second of each mimiite, . oJeo_ o not from euast to west. Thus a star is | 24 hours. The uniformity holds true at = 3 vishle through such a glass only | least to the thousandth of a second, | the 55th to 59th seconds inclusive of t - Profit manufacturing racilities —as when it is on the celestial meridian, It will remain the same for centuries | the_first four minutes and the 50th ac, 1nto ne Stars are selected for observation | before a correction will be necessary. | 10 89th seconds inclusive of the 59th re omitted. Exactly at the : i . Which cross this meridian near the | Consequently the length of the | Minute. 1114 1 1 h t TP, e i i win? | Comeatnty e engt S | MM, 21 omlel, oty 2 e the result of brilliant engineering achievements dlrectly overhead from which, if a | passage of a selected star over the | €' d&sh. In all cases the beginning of plumb’ line were dropped, it would | meridian of Washington and the next | the dash denotes the beginning of the ) . sec s hit the telescope. The observers|succeeding pas-age of the same star | °¢ond. i t ful have a lst of approximately 150 over the same meridian, is uniform. | The error of the time signal as it = m ebaker oI1Iers € mos cautl ) stars, different ones of which are used | The length of the solar day is not | CO™eS over the radio is slightly great 25 the star map changes from sea- | uniform because of the apparent | Ihan un original possivle error of u son to season. The observer operates | movement of the sun ip the heavens, | litle less than three o il ' a micrometer apparatus which causes | There are 365% solar days In a vear |0 & sccond at the observatory. The the most powe the most comfortable, € mos interruptions in an electric circuit as | and 366% star day. . a lags of the radio stations, it has been 4 the star passes certain polnts in the | being due to the T T e o four C eld. The exact time at which these | around the sun. ar” Unteeathe fe0 (Al e iian b tions should occur is known | the time required for the e tenth of a second. This, of course, is u n t mOSt economlca tu €oa ers ice. They are recorded | move from any position in respget to | © Iy comme ra e’ a € : by anhmsu-:mem kn:wn the fixed stars as seen from the earth | /2l DUt . Lo e " 2 . . hronograph on the same sheet | back to the same position again, In | SClentific purposes it is necessary to r1 n which records the ticks of a standard | actual time, it is 20 minutes longer | KPOW €very possible correction and t s, t t p lt y S, s e ekt f 5 siandend | actol e, W'l 30 mimute Toneer | oty s o i siresns ever bul TN S S—. S —— in keeping time for the United States. | sion of the equinoxe SRt Mowthly; RDEELS Eivs : o £ ing the data concerning all signals. Clock Never Right, Solar Time Conv 1 t t manu tu t : g e Convenient. 1 Wi n By making measurements on this| The business of the world, however Sucor Dismeymios. Myit. ower a (0] er a acC rers are orce (8] sheet the exact times, according to|must be conducted on solar time, It | h€ time signals sent out from | the clock, when the stars crossed the | is more convenient and has heen cxtal | Yashington are com )l meridian’ can be determined, If | lished by generations. Siders Gl LD=RBIE o R i Wil e Siendin y ar riance, as they always | signals coming ovor the radlo wouls | 5Nt out from other’ great national ob- as or comparable cars. 3 known time when the{mean very little in the average house. | SeFVatorie The arison dis. ctually did cross the difference | hold or business office and £ome math. | Cl0Ses certain curiou zets whic represents the inaccuracy of the | emat! caleulations would be requir- | Puzzle astronomers the inves clock, because the star cannot be in- | ed to set watches by them. The tigation of which constitutes the accurate. In making these calcula- | Observatory staff perform these calea. | MOSt advanced work in the scien- tions, however. it is necessary to ap- | lations and translate the side tific fnvestigation of that most intan ply corrections for possible | into terms of the sun clock menerally | &ible of all clements which enter into | errors in the telescope and for other|used. But the signals are based on|lfo—time. Despite all corrections | reasons which involve higher mathe- | mean, rather than apparent s which have heen made up to the pre matics. time. The sun is treated as if it were | ent dis s of hundredths of There are three standard clocks at | one of the fixed stars and not a mov- | Seconds st between Washington o e Presiden under ound vault under uniform To make possible the universal use inburgh and Greenwich. e a or e temperature and air pr sc | of this mean solar time the > Na astronom clocks are set, In the first piace, by | divided into time zones extending | ers. v ste no time on fanci e star time. Being human devices, | westward from the zero meridian o |ful hypotheses as that of traveling - lue -Per ormame uxu with friction to overcome, they do not | Greenwich, and, near London, ward in time but are confident emain Jonz absolutely accurate, al:|and arranged approsimately one hour the apparent discrepancles are | : of course, their errors are far | apart. hington is five zones fron; result of instrumental defects or | 3 i in those of the finest watches. | Greenwich and hence, by mean lifferent conditions of observation | illi teells combined totals of all other Maximum beauty and superlative they are left undisturbed and | time, always is five hourte hehind | which can be corrected, once they | New, brilliant example of excess power o o never reset or interfered with in any | whes the star Ume s tnsiated into | hevome Kown. - Some. inse. a0 ah and quality at a One-Profit price— | cars in the world of equal or greater ""mf"“l for ‘:;P.““m of fcommerce— nan xcept when repairs are nec- | sun time. 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