If you have never seen them, you must make a pilgrimage to see the Harrison
Clocks at the Greenwich Observatory.

If you have not read the book, you must read the book "Longitude" before
seeing the clocks.

--- Graham

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Attila Kinali attila@kinali.ch wrote:

Greenwich as recommended by others is a must, the science museum is also a
good way to spend a day.

Cheap and London don't necessarily go hand in hand unpess you go d hostel
style accommodation or perhaps even youth hostels?

I can recommend the New Linden hotel near Notting hill gate from recent
personal experience. There are plenty of little family owned hotels of a
similar standard but they're still around £100 a night.

On 26 Apr 2017 4:01 pm, "Attila Kinali" attila@kinali.ch wrote:

Yes -- Greenwich is a must. Also read up on why the GPS 0.00000 E line
is not on the mark that is etched in the ground. Then walk over to the 0
point and admire your GPS receiver.

The Harrison clocks are a wonder to behold.....

Philip

On 26/04/2017 11:46, Graham / KE9H wrote:

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Attila Kinali attila@kinali.ch wrote:

As somebody that lives in London...

Airbnb is probably the lowest cost option to stay for a week, there
are people advertising rooms for under £20 per night

Places that are worthwhile to see historic timepieces

http://www.rmg.co.uk/ has H1,H2, H3 & H4 (I think only H1 is on
display at the moment)  and of course you can stand on the Greenwich
meridian, be there before 13:00 and you can see the ball go down the
pole, which might be the first time "signal".they also have a 5071a
that was used by NPL (the UK equiv of NIST).

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk has another Harrison clock.

Cheers

If you can travel to Cambridge ( a short train trip from London ), the
the Corpus Clock is well worth seeing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock

https://youtu.be/pHO1JTNPPOU

Mike

Mike Millen mike.millen.uk@gmail.com wrote:

My notes on the Corpus Clock:

http://fanf.livejournal.com/94043.html
http://fanf.livejournal.com/98545.html

If you are in Cambridge, listen out for the chimes from Great St Mary's
church next to the market square - the GSM chimes were copied for the
palace of Westminster's clock tower.

Also listen out for Trinity's clock which strikes the hour twice, and
which has a very informative web site: http://trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/clock/
Trinity's clock is based on the design of the palace of Westminster's
clock.

Frank King has information about some notable sundials:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fhk1/Sundials/WriteUps/CBsundialWalk.pdf

The Royal Greenwich Observatory was housed next to Cambridge University's
Institute of Astronomy for several years before it was finally shut down.
I don't know of any notable timekeeping activities, though.

Tony.

f.anthony.n.finch  dot@dotat.at  http://dotat.at/  -  I xn--zr8h punycode
Faeroes: Northwesterly 5 or 6 becoming variable 3 or 4, then southerly 5 or 6
later in west. Moderate or rough becoming slight or moderate. Showers. Good,
occasionally moderate.

Clint Jay cjaysharp@gmail.com wrote:

Look for the clock and watch gallery in the Science Museum, lots of great
devices from the collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
http://www.clockmakers.org/the-clockmakers-museum-library/the-clockmakers-museum-library/
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/clockmakers-museum?keywords=clockmakers

And the British Horological Institute has a museum too (very limited
opening hours, tho) http://bhi.co.uk/museum/the-bhi-museum-trust/

Tony.

f.anthony.n.finch  dot@dotat.at  http://dotat.at/  -  I xn--zr8h punycode
Fisher: Cyclonic becoming north 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Moderate.
Rain then showers. Moderate or good.

Do not neglect a visit to the Clockworks http://theclockworks.org/ museum. Examples of the most accurate pendulum clocks ever put into production e.g., (LeRoy, Riefler, Shortt-Synchronome and Fedchenko) are among the collection there. Free — and the staff are very friendly and extremely knowledgable.

— Eric

Hey there!

Sorry for my late response. The last weeks have been extremely busy
and my upcomming trip to the UK didn't exactly help.

Thanks to everyone I have now a decent list of things to do.

If anyone lives in the general London area and would like
to have a beer/tea/hot chocolate together, feel free to send
me a message.

		Attila Kinali

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:05:52 +0200
Attila Kinali attila@kinali.ch wrote:

--
It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All
the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no
use without that foundation.
-- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson