The device is basically a Galilean seconds pendulum disguised as a classical column.
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Both pendulums were seconds pendulums, about 1 meter ( 39 Hz timing signal.
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The seconds pendulum was then used as a standard for calibrating pendulums with different periods.
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Instead of the seconds pendulum method, the commission whose members included meridian passing through Paris.
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So the modern world's standard unit of length is certainly closely linked historically with the seconds pendulum.
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He then measured the interval between seeing gunsmoke and arrival of the sound using a half-second pendulum.
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The clock has Vulliamy's design of self-levelling pallets and a 2-second pendulum with a heavy bob.
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In addition to clock pendulums, freeswinging seconds pendulums were widely used as precision timers in scientific experiments in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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It has a 1?second pendulum and the bob weighs two hundredweight " . Tredegar Urban District Council's " Centenary Souvenir ", 1958