Conversely, steel posts are not as stiff as wood, and wires are fastened with slips along fixed teeth, which means variations in driving height affect wire spacing.
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All 1000 examples were sent to the Besan�on in France for testing of their chronometer status and after 63 days of relentless testing ( including temperature variation testing ) the mean variation was less than two thousandth of a second per day.
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Anyway-speaking of air pressure-my instinct tells me that this would act to wash away almost all of the pressure difference caused by small local variation in the strength of gravity ( again, I mean variation due to density difference, not due to oblateness ).