330
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
ready to receive the time-signals. The electrical working of the apparatus which accomplishes this will be understood by reference to Fig. 8.[1] Under normal conditions, the current from the observatory passes
directly through the chronopher, and out at the galvanometer G', to the tower-clock at the Houses of Parliament, "Westminster. This clock has a gravity escapement, and a metallic compensating pendulum, very similar to the pendulum of the Sidereal Standard, already described, and runs with a rate of less than one second per week. The
- ↑ The small figures 1, 2, 3, 4, to the right of Fig. 8 and to the left of Fig. 9, show the connection between the wires.
