Herrick, following the captain into the state-room, where he began to adjust the chronometer in its place at the bed-head.
Now let's get this chronometer fixed," said he, and led the way into the house.
Wild was the first to overcome this difficulty by sewing into the canvas wall the glass lid of a chronometer box.
The actual Greenwich time of the occurrence is calculated, and the error of the chronometer is thus determined.
The time of disappearance of the star by the chronometer to be corrected is noted.
Descending to the camp I told the others, and in intense excitement we watched the chronometer for seven o'clock, when the whalers would be summoned to work.
No chronometer check could be applied until June 1915.
With ordinary care the chronometer error can be determined in this way to within a few seconds, which is accurate enough for purposes of navigation.
He was staring at his apparatus in a sort of stupor, and by his side the chronometer ticked.
Then he gave one chronometer to Basil, and returned the other to the portmanteau.
It was about nine o'clock in the morning, I remember, for just then the captain called to me to stand by the chronometer while he took his fore observation.
Captain Hackstaff wasn't one of those old skippers who do everything themselves with a pocket watch, and keep the key of the chronometer in their waistcoat pocket, and won't tell the mate how far the dead reckoning is out.
Times of swing were determined by the observation of coincidences of the pendulum with chronometer signals.
Within the box was an electromagnet whose coils were connected with a chronometer circuit and whose armature carried a long arm that moved two shutters, in both of which were horizontal slits of the same size.
The chronometer signals broke the circuit, causing the three slits momentarily to be in line, and when the images of the slit in the two mirrors coincided, a coincidence was observed.
The chronometer signals worked a relay that gave a horizontal spark which was reflected into the telescope from the mirrors.
He carefully packed a few essentials in his knapsack, together with one chronometer and a tiny gyroscopic compass.
When they awoke the chronometer recorded the passing of twelve hours, and they had to tear a network of strong fibers with which the tree had invested them preparatory to absorbing their bodies as food.
He glanced at the astral chronometer over his head.
He glanced at the astral chronometer over his head automatically and noted the time.
He glanced at the astral chronometer over his head and then turned to speak into the audio log recorder.
Strong and glanced at the astral chronometer over his head.
This ship came to anchor some two miles astern of us, and we sent off the prisoners of the Contest by her, the Master consenting to take them for a chronometer which I sent him.
As will be seen from the report and diagram of Professor Russell, they are good timekeepers, especially the one having the chronometer escapement.
I got out dear father's chronometer and was horrified to find the hour past six.
I snapped, taking out my dear father's chronometer and looking at it under the light of the nearest lamp.
A golden disk chronometer fixed in the ceiling behind a carved crystal face said ten-thirty.
The only bad consequence of this accident was an injury sustained by a very valuable chronometer (Number 1733) belonging to Daniel Moore, Esquire, of Lincoln's Inn.
The passenger had been assigned the duty of watching the engine gauge and recording it, together with the chronometer record.
As it was not certain that Pointe aux Tremble could be easily made out from a distance, it was necessary to keep careful watch of the chronometer and the propeller revolution gauge.
My chronometer got full of water and stopped; the aneroids, the camera, all were injured beyond repair.
Also, the great care which I had to take of the chronometer under most difficult circumstances was a trial to me, considering the numberless things I had to look after.
Thornton went at once to the chronometerand set his watch by it.
The chronometer is running; I know where the captain's sextant is, and I wish you'd let me try.
Considering the rough use to which his chronometer had been subjected, he decided that he would steer a westerly course, keeping a little north, so as to make the Cape, and thus reach Simon's Bay.
My chronometer is not a very trustworthy one, and this knocking about in the boat may have unsettled it; but if it is near right, I fancy we are actually west of the Cape; and this is possible, if the current has been very strong.
American mechanism what thechronometer is to English, a speciality in which rivalry by any other nation is at this moment out of the question.
An Adirondack hunter would not thank the best English rifle-maker for one of his guns any more warmly than a sea-captain in want of a chronometer would thank his owners for a Swiss lepine watch.
Longitude by chronometer was to come half a century after Dampier was in his grave, and such charts as he possessed did little more than indicate the existence of Terra Australis.
In proof of his statements, Folger brought away with him the chronometer and azimuth compass of the Bounty.
Let us see, now, if your watch is a good chronometer for telling our longitude.
Oh, I tinker a chronometeronce in a while," McPhearson answered.
Well, after a trip of sixty-one days the Deptford reached Port Royal, and the chronometer (for that is what this new sort of watch really was) proved to be only about nine seconds slow.
During that entire time the chronometer had varied only one minute and five seconds.
I had water-tight half-chronometer watches keeping Greenwich mean time, and three other watches.
The watches and chronometer were looked upon with suspicion, their ticking causing curiosity and even anxiety.
I was sure that if our chronometer was right we should pick it up about two o'clock in the morning.
