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Time measurements

In Search of Lost Time

by Tom Vanderbilt,

The science of the perfect second

Clash of the Time Lords

by Michelle Stacey,

Who will own the measure of our days?

By which we measure

by Harper’s Staff,

An infinite story of beauty

by Annie Dillard,

The electric time service

by S.P. (Samuel Pierpont) Langley,

Making watches by machinery

by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson,

Editor’s table

The planet-watchers of Greenwich

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