The Victorian Time Signal Service
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Time Signal Service
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A 1945 technical paper from the Telecommunications Journal of Australia is revisited that describes the timing and signalling equipment used at the Melbourne Observatory between 1853 and 1945. The equipment was used to provide the Victorian Time Signal Service for over ninety years.
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Cannon, A.H. 1945. ‘The Victorian Time Signal Service’, Telecommunications Journal of Australia, June 1945, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 215-222.
Melbourne Museum-1, 2014a. ‘Melbourne Observatory & Standard Time in Victoria’ at http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/themes/1632/melbourne-observatory-standard-time-in-victoria
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Wikipedia -2, 2014b. ‘Shortt-Synchronome clock’, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortt-Synchronome_clock
Wikipedia-3, 2014c. ‘Precision Time Protocol’, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
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May 26, 2020
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Moorhead, S. . (2020). The Victorian Time Signal Service. Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 2(4), 10. https://doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v2n4.278
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