The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts (1915)
Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 180
d, andbesides he would rather do it, too. How Time Is Distributed.—In this country the correctstandard time is sent out by the United States Naval Observa-tory at Washington to all cities east of the Eocky Mountains, THE TIME O DAY 161 by wire telegraph, and all over the Atlantic ocean and… … ^OCLOCKMIDNIGHT Fig. 166.—Standard Time at Different Cities. elry stores and to private citizens who always want to be setright. How an astronomer gets the correct time; how it is sentout over the wires and by wireless and how it is distributed to 162 THE BOOK OF THE STARS the common people is a…
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