MUJCA

Section VI

The Bench

Who actually made these.

Instruments have makers, and the makers had tools, competitors and commercial arrangements. This section is about the people at the bench: who made the chronometer producible, what they worked with, and whose name ended up on the dial.

A row of similar marine chronometers in fitted boxes on a shelf, museum store, even light
The two who made the marine chronometer producible rather than a single miracle.Photo: Hamilton Marine Chronometer Model 21 · Wikimedia Commons

3 entries

Each one a mechanism and the error it defeats

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