Wednesday 17 May 2017
The Trinity College Clock in Great Court was installed in 1910 and is remarkably accurate, known to be better than one second per month, but it was only in 2009 that a system was introduced to monitor the “going”.
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Dr Hugh Hunt, the Keeper of the Clock and a Senior Member of the Department of Engineering, oversaw the “going” project to attach a sensor on the clock pendulum and compare it to the accurate time signal from a GPS receiver. This data is streamed continuously via http://trin-hosts.trin.cam.ac.uk/clock. Dr Hugh Hunt will kindly introduce Friends to the clock, explain the “going” project, and lead us up the Great Tower to view the mechanism as it strikes 12 noon.
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10.30 - 12.15