The Shortt Free-pendulum Clock

Description

Free pendulum from the Shortt No. 0 prototype free pendulum regulator clock, hung in copper cylinder with glass bell covers top and bottom, and battery box, operated at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh from 1922, designed by William Hamilton Shortt in 1921, made by the Synchronome Company of London, 1922

Museum reference

T.1950.10 A

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Clock pendulum, free

Production information

Synchronome Company Ltd, Maker
London, England, Northern Europe
Shortt, William Hamilton, 1881 - 1971, Designer

Date

1921

Materials

Copper, Glass

Physical description

Copper cylinder, glass bell covers

Associations

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Regulator Clocks (14 May 1988)