“It might be amusing to the present company to learn how GMT was distributed to the watch and clock trade. “A woman possessed of a chronometer obtained permission from the Astronomer Royal at the time (perhaps no mere man could have been successful) to call at the Observatory and have it corrected as often as she pleased.”
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