English Explanatory Dictionary

Shortt clock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A complex precision electromechanical pendulum clock.

Word forms

Shortt clock Shortt clocks

Etymology

Invented in 1921 by British railway engineer William Hamilton Shortt in collaboration with horologist Frank Hope-Jones.

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