Global Information Lookup Global Information

Thomas Mercer Chronometers information


Thomas Mercer Chronometers
Company typeCorporation
Founded1858
HeadquartersRichmond upon Thames, Surrey
Key people
Thomas Mercer, Founder
Productschronometers
Websitewww.thomasmercer.com

Thomas Mercer Chronometers is a British company specialising in the design and production of bespoke chronometers.

and 16 Related for: Thomas Mercer Chronometers information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8879 seconds.)

Thomas Mercer Chronometers

Last Update:

Thomas Mercer Chronometers is a British company specialising in the design and production of bespoke chronometers. The story begins with John Harrison...

Word Count : 1113

Marine chronometer

Last Update:

mechanical timekeepers. Thomas Mercer Chronometers was among the companies that continued to make them. Ship’s marine chronometers are the most exact portable...

Word Count : 4803

John Harrison

Last Update:

volumes over time as evidence that the chronometers were not widely used. However, Landes points out that the chronometers lasted for decades and did not need...

Word Count : 6801

Tim Jarvis

Last Update:

the James Caird. Using the same materials, clothing, food and a Thomas Mercer chronometer as in the original voyage, Jarvis and the team sailed their replica...

Word Count : 3215

Ernest Shackleton

Last Update:

content and rough constitution), period navigational aids, and a Thomas Mercer chronometer just as Shackleton had used. This expedition was made into a documentary...

Word Count : 11858

Charles Frodsham

Last Update:

Impulse Chronometer Wristwatch". SJX website. Mercer, Frodshams, p. 76 "The Royal Observatory Greenwich - where east meets west: Rates of chronometers and...

Word Count : 1093

Larcum Kendall

Last Update:

used ideas from pocket watches in his H4 chronometer. Kendall set up his own business in 1742, working with Thomas Mudge to make watches, working for the...

Word Count : 1577

List of watchmakers

Last Update:

(1822–1900), Swedish mechanic and clockmaker Thomas Mercer (1822–1900), English watchmaker, London, chronometer. Erhard Junghans (1823–1870), German clockmaker...

Word Count : 5502

1984 New Year Honours

Last Update:

Observatory, Edinburgh. Ronald Matthews, Manager, Chronometer Shop, Thomas Mercer Chronometers Ltd. Thomas Albert Matthews, Member, Leominster District Council...

Word Count : 15737

Time

Last Update:

whistle. This idea was later mechanized by Levi Hutchins and Seth E. Thomas. A chronometer is a portable timekeeper that meets certain precision standards...

Word Count : 13038

Electrical telegraph

Last Update:

Telecommunications. Mercer University Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780865544185. Oslin, George P (1992). The Story of Telecommunications. Mercer University Press...

Word Count : 9172

Redbourn

Last Update:

set up a jam-making factory, which in 1956 was bought by Thomas Mercer Ltd, a marine chronometer manufacturer. The site, just off High Street, is now an...

Word Count : 1356

List of people considered father or mother of a field

Last Update:

Benz: Father of the Automobile Industry Fanning, Leonard M. Published by MERCER PUBLISHING, NEW YORK, 1955 "Der Streit um den "Geburtstag" des modernen...

Word Count : 6517

June 1941

Last Update:

Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2015. Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications...

Word Count : 4925

1750s

Last Update:

(Mercer University Press, 2008) p113 Ian S. Glass, Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist (Oxford University Press, 2013) pp30-33 Thomas...

Word Count : 17538

1770s

Last Update:

United States naval officer (War of 1812) (d. 1813) June 16 Charles F. Mercer, American politician (d. 1858) Harry Croswell, crusading American political...

Word Count : 36407

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net