1881 - 1971
William Hamilton Shortt
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1880
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| Birthplace |
Wimbledon, Surrey, England
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| Died |
1971
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| Place of Death |
Exeter, England
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William Hamilton Shortt (1881–1971) was a railway engineer and noted horologist, responsible for the design of the Shortt-Synchronome free pendulum clock, a widely used time standard, employed internationally in observatories in the period between the two World Wars. His deep involvement in precision timekeeping, as a colleague of Frank Hope-Jones and director of the Synchronome Company, derived from work on the safety of train travel and the accurate measurement of train speeds, following investigations into a serious train derailment of a LSWR train at Salisbury Station in 1906, when twenty-eight people died.
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