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What is the name of the rod in the center of the sundial called?
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Full form of MIR?
Magnetic Iron Rod
What is the difference between achromatopsia and rod monochromacy?
There is none.
The Development of Clocks?
Clocks are timekeeping devices everyone is familiar with, and it is easy to take their ability to show their users the exact time down to the second. However, at one time, clocks weren’t nearly as sophisticated, and didn’t even use the same principles as today’s timepieces. The sundial was one of the first clocks that was used by many people. By looking at the shadow cast by a sundial’s “styleâ€� – a rod or straightedge that projects from the surface of the sundial. To work properly, the style has to be pointed towards true North, and the angle it has compared to the horizontal surface must be adjusted for the latitude of its location. The biggest hitch is that the Earth doesn’t rotate at a perfectly constant speed. This can throw off sundial time by as much as 15 minutes. Also, sundials show the local solar time unless compensations are made to bring them in line with clock time. Keeping up with Daylight Savings Time changes would require a further realignment of the sundial. It is no wonder that people kept looking for another kind of clock, given the drawbacks of using sundials. Mechanical clocks had the promise of being able to keep accurate time regardless of the sun’s position, as well as working during all 24 hours instead of just during the day. At first, however, mechanical clocks weren’t very accurate or reliable. Therefore, people would still arrange meetings and other events by using terms like “around lunchtimeâ€� instead of trying for specific times. As technology improved, the ability to accurately track hours, and then minutes, became standard. These clocks, powered by springs, first appeared in the 1400s. Clockmakers then worked on various mechanisms to allow them to keep time at a constant rate, even as the spring relaxed. One big development in clock design was the basic concept of using an oscillating mechanism to tick off the increments. This allowed clocks to be much more accurate and reliable. This development, along with other continual advances in design, have made clocks such a workable method for telling time that it’s hard to imagine a society without them.
Why was it that the flag held by Neil Armstrong in travelling to the moon was moving?
It was made to look like that it had a rod in it.
What are the special cells on the retina that sense black white and shades of grey?
rods or rod cells
How do you get the Ultra rod in Ruby?
1 It's not called super rod 2 in Mossdeep city in the house left of the space center.
A rod at the center of a wheel?
The rod is the axle.
What is the name of the train song by Rod Stewart?
It is called ''Downtown Train''.
What is the name of the Carolina huricanes center?
1.Rod Brind' amour 2.Eric Stall A.Ray Whitney
What is the birth name of Rod Man?
Rod Man's birth name is Rod Thompson.
What is the birth name of Rod Gilson?
Rod Gilson's birth name is Rod Gilkeson.
What is the birth name of Rod Navarro?
Rod Navarro's birth name is Rod Bowers Navarro.
Were do you get super rod?
get to mossdeep city and go above the Pokemon center and there is a house where you get the super rod
Where is the center of gravity of a uniform rod?
The centre of the cross-section, halfway along the length of the rod.
Where can you get the old rod in Pokemon HeartGold?
I think you can get the old rod by going to this poke center near a LakeIf you go in the Pokemon center right before union cave talk to the fisherman inside he gives you the old rod.
When installing the ground rod what is the maximum distance from the ground rod to the secondary distribution center?
5 feet
Another name for rod?
rod as in rod stewart? rodney,roderick rod as in curtain,fishing rod? pole,
