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throughout the building. In addition to wall clocks, it also controls time stamps that are used to stamp documents with the time, and a turret clock used in a clock tower. The "program clock" is a timer that can be programmed with punched paper tape to ring bells or turn machines on and off at
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GPO Master clock type 36 Mark 3, by Gent and Co., UK. This clock was made with a synchronising mechanism, responsive to an external signal relayed by land line from the GPO Chronopher at St.Martin's le grand, which in turn, received it from the
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clock, once per second or once per minute. Some types, such as the
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punches, and paper tape programmers which ran factory machines. Thousands of such systems were installed in industrial countries and enabled the precise scheduling which industrial economies depended on.
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attached to the mechanism, transmitted to the controlled equipment through pairs of wires. The controlled devices could be wall clocks, tower clocks, factory sirens, school bells,
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Master clock from synchronised school clock system, c. 1928. Electromechanical movement winds each minute, and impulses slave clocks each minute. Operates on 24 volts DC.
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impulse system; these were Gent and Co., of
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and other timing devices, connected through wires to a master clock which kept them synchronized by electrical signals. The master clock was usually a precision
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units in the background are HP 5071A caesium beam clocks. The black units in the foreground are Sigma-Tau MHM-2010 hydrogen maser standards.
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