Excerpt from Testing of Timepieces The functions of the National Bureau of Standards include the testing and comparison with standards, of various kinds of measuring apparatus, and the certification of the accuracy of such instruments. Included in such measuring apparatus are timepieces of various kinds, such as pocket watches, wrist watches, stop watches, chronometers, clocks, and chronographs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.