Pendulum to Atom

Series

Series Name
Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.
215
Date Released
9 Feb 1959
Date recorded
2 Jan 1959
Length of issue (in feet)
756
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Novelty Decorations
  2. 2Katamars
  3. 3Pendulum to Atom

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Summary
Pathe synopsis: A fascinating glimpse of the development of the clock from the fifteenth century right up to the present day - culminating in an enormous atom clock, asccurate to one second in three hundred years! [filmed at Howard Cotton Ltd, Foster Lane, EC1, and the National Physical Laboratory]
Keywords
Science and technology
Locations
London; England
Written sources
Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis
Credits:
Commentator
David De Keyser
Length of story (in feet)
278
Story extras:
Film clip

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