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Image sizes: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags: imagervatova, little bo peep image, php icons, icon labs farmingdale ny, cute funny imagesException: sea chronometres. Almost till the end of a XVIII-th century seamen notHad reliable and exact methods for longitude measurement, and as a result It is a lot of ships, human lives and cargoes was lost on shallows and reeves, Which as it was supposed, have defended on many miles from an accident place. With The help of tools of a XVIII-th century it was possible with sufficient accuracy to define Zenith, - time when the sun reaches the maximum height over horizon. Hours which accurately would show time on were for this purpose necessary To longitude 0 _ that seamen could compare time of local zenith to indicators Chronometre and to calculate the longitude: each hour of a difference per time Corresponds 15_ longitudes. In a XVIII-th century accuracy of hours depended on a pendulum, Which was not reliable on such unstable platform, as the ship. "A longitude Was a great secret that epoch, a riddle for seafarers, a call for Scientists, a stumbling-block for kings and statesmen. It Teased imagination not less, than water of life and a philosophers' stone, only The longitude was a reality "Revolution in Time (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, David S. Landes, 1983), p. 111. Later, in a XIX-th century, exact hours were required also to railways and To passengers to get on station in time. them Employees have been simply doomed to turning to the largest Consumers of hours, features of the world of railways have absolutely changed them Representation about time. "(In the same place, "The Railway companies, minutes to maintain operation schedule for movement, which not have been most strongly mentioned Only followed the nobility precisely hours, But requirements, but machinists and with. 285) High-precision hours became a symbol The status, them it is proud the people who did not have any relation to the factory carried To discipline. It both a wall clock and time became the important part factory Lives. When the machine rhythm has created the working day measured on hours of work and ![]()
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