The Wheatstone Lecture 2008

05 Dec 2008

Time by Wire: 175 years of the Greenwich Time Service David Rooney The Institute of Engineering and Technology 3 December 2008 >> go to webcast>> recommend to friend

David Rooney, Curator of Timekeeping at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich was honoured to give The Wheatstone Lecture 2008. In his lecture, David Rooney explored the curious history of time distribution from Greenwich, revealing little-known stories behind one of Britain's best-known measurement systems: Greenwich Mean Time.