As a New Jersey (read: giant suburb of New York) native accustomed to round-the-clock transit options, I learned this the hard way after getting stranded with a friend after a movie.
Many European cities have round-the-clock public transit systems.
He made significant improvements in the transit clock at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, London, and, independently of John Arnold, also of Great Britain, he developed the bimetallic compensation balance.
The mayor has talked about countdown clocks for public transit as if he invented them; but in fact, says the authority, it has had plans to start introducing them for all the numbered train lines as early as January, although it says it'll probably take a year to complete that task.
Rutgers equipped the observatory with "a 6.5-inch equatorial refracting telescope, a meridian circle with four-inch object glass for transit observations, a sidereal clock, a mean solar clock...chronograph, repeating circle, and other instruments".
Its instrumentation, apart from many normal devices (such as meteorological and magnetic equipment, with a seismograph and a small transit and pendulum clock, ) was noted for the Dolland Telescope.
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are threatening to filibuster any short-term extension of the federal fund that pays for the nation's highways, bridges, roads and mass transit when the clock runs out at the end of July.
In addition there were three other smaller transit telescopes, two clocks by Clemens Riefler of Munich, and other accessories including sextants, chronometers, and teaching tools.
"I was watching T.V., and at 12 03 they said, 'Stop the clock,' " he recalled, referring to the transit union's decision not to strike then.
A four-inch equatorial, a three-inch transit instrument, and four pendulum clocks with two chronometers, were also procured from the observatory at Modena.
The British astronomer Edmond Halley had realized that precise measurement of a transit might give astronomers armed with a clock and a telescope the data they needed to calculate how far Earth is from the Sun.
