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  2. Metronome (public artwork) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, if the clock reads "195641287180304", it means that time is 19:56 (7:56 PM) and 41.2 seconds, and that there are 04 hours, 03 minutes, and 18.7 seconds remaining in the day. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For a few months in 2005, the clock on Metronome did not give the time of day, but instead counted down the time until the International Olympic ...

  3. Charles F. Dowd - Wikipedia

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    Charles F. Dowd (1825–1904) was a co-principal (with his wife Harriet M. Dowd) of the Temple Grove Ladies Seminary (now Skidmore College) in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was the first person to propose multiple time zones for any country, those for the railways of the United States .

  4. Technology of the New York City Subway - Wikipedia

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    The new Bluetooth clocks performed accurately 97% of the time. [155] In November 2016, the MTA declared the Broadway Line countdown clock test successful. All B Division stations would get countdown clocks by March 2018 (several years ahead of schedule), using the same Bluetooth technology as the clocks in the Broadway Line stations.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually of proteins). picosecond: 10 −12 s: One trillionth of a second. nanosecond: 10 −9 s: One billionth of a second. Time for molecules to fluoresce. shake: 10 −8 s: 10 nanoseconds, also a casual term for a short period of time. microsecond: 10 −6 s: One millionth of a second. Symbol is μs ...

  6. Self Winding Clock Company - Wikipedia

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    The movements were mounted in cases of various designs, often in case styles similar to those of companies like Seth Thomas and E. Howard. [4] The SWCC appears to have been manufacturing their own clock movements by 1892, for they are all stamped "Self Winding Clock Co". Earlier movements were stamped with Seth Thomas or E. Howard markings. [5]

  7. Hafele–Keating experiment - Wikipedia

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    Considering the Hafele–Keating experiment in a frame of reference at rest with respect to the center of the Earth (because this is an inertial frame [3]), a clock aboard the plane moving eastward, in the direction of the Earth's rotation, had a greater velocity (resulting in a relative time loss) than one that remained on the ground, while a ...

  8. 26 Movies to Watch on New Year's Eve Before the Clock ... - AOL

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    A gaggle of singles living in New York make their way to a rowdy New Year's Eve party in this 1999 film, which stars Ben Affleck, Paul Rudd, and Dave Chappelle. 19. An Affair to Remember

  9. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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    Display of time zones (usually, a second hour hand displays the Coordinated Universal Time) world time; Quickset date; small seconds - seconds are displayed in a subdial; Foudroyante (also called "flying seconds"- a dedicated hand that completes a full rotation in one second indicating fractions of a second)