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Yes Greenwich has very nice new time galleries:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.20428
I worked on a Shackleton exhibit years ago at the American Museum of
Natural History which used real sextants fitted with sensors, so you
could take a 'real' reading on a projected ocean. In that case the
time calculation was done by the computer however. The exhibit was
last seen in Dallas in 2005, but may still be touring... here are some
details:
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/shackleton/exhibition.html
Quoting John Bowditch <[log in to unmask]>:
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> Hi David,
>
> You probably know this but there's got to be some very good historical
> stuff at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. They have
> Harrison's H-1 Chronometer among other things. Also, check with the
> Science Museum in South Kensington, London. They've also got some
> terrific stuff on time and time keeping.
>
> John Bowditch
> Director of Exhibits
> Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
>
>
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> The National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of American
> History are collaborating on an exhibition on the history and continued
> importance of time in navigation. The basic message: if you want to know
>
> precisely where you are, you need an accurate clock. The exhibition will
> cover
> the history of timekeeping and its relationship to navigation on the sea
> and the
> land and in the air and in space, from the invention of the chronometer
> to
> atomic clocks and GPS.
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any particularly well done
> exhibitions on
> this subject that are currently on view.
>
> David Romanowski
> Writer-Editor, Exhibits Design
> National Air and Space Museum
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