Auguste-Lucien Vérité (21 October 1806 – 19 July 1887) was a French clockmaker, the creator of the
Besançon astronomical clock and the
Beauvais astronomical clock.
Vérité also did pioneering work on clock synchronisation. Working for the
railway company, he installed a
clock network
A clock network or clock system is a set of synchronized clocks designed to always show exactly the same time by communicating with each other. Clock networks usually consist of a central master clock kept in sync with an official time source, ...
at
Gare du Nord
The Gare du Nord (; ), officially Paris Nord, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. The station is served by trains that run between the capital and northern France via the Paris–Lille railway, as well ...
in Paris with all the station clocks regulated by electromagnetic impulse from a single
master clock
A master clock is a precision clock that provides timing signals to synchronise slave clocks as part of a clock network. Networks of electric clocks connected by wires to a precision master pendulum clock began to be used in institutions lik ...
.
References
1806 births
1887 deaths
French clockmakers
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