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- Can anyone identify this timer stopwatch? Could it possibly date from . . .
I'm really intrigued about this pocket watch timer (see attachments) - I suspect it was made pre-1880 due to the fact that it has the words "Fine Silver" on the inside of the case and that the Crown is in the sidewinder position I'm thinking it may even date back to the 1860s? It has the
- Need help Identifying Elgin stopwatch timer | NAWCC Forums
Recently acquired an Elgin stopwatch I have never seen before The way the dial is marked it for timing a 5 mile run at between 120 and 500 miles an hour ?? It reaches the 30 mark (times 10=300) on the dial in 1 minute which as it states on the dial if you did a 5 mile run in one minute you
- American Stopwatch Thread- show us your American . . . - NAWCC Forums
Pastor Football Basketball timer by Ingraham, and Josten Sports Timer by New Haven (see also the Lawson timer by New Haven in post #2 American Stopwatch Thread- show us your American stopwatches and timers! Unless otherwise noted, any photographs and images in this post are owned by the poster and should not be used without permission
- Meylan Stopwatch Corp. ? | NAWCC Forums
I just acquired another MEYLAN stopwatch at a small antique mall in Ferdinand, IN for five bucks, just seemed like to good of a deal to pass up It was wound “tight” and did not want to tick, but I purchased it anyway as I thought to myself, “Self, since the American Olympic trials in swimming
- Elgin A-8 Bomb timer - NAWCC Forums
It's an Elgin grade 582 'Jitterbug' timer Made in 1943, in this case It's not really a stopwatch in the standard sense It runs as long as there's power in the mainspring It uses what are essentially chronograph works to connect the hands to the train It should be running at 30 bps, so that the hand, if it were there, would go around in 10 seconds, and the minute register hand ticks over
- Wright Bros Flyer The Sun stopwatch from the . . . - NAWCC Forums
The stopwatch that was used aboard the Wright Brothers 'Flyer' is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC while the other one is located at Gallet HQ in Switzerland Link to the Wright Bros stopwatch at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian:
- Need help identifying Meylan Stopwatch please - NAWCC Forums
Please help as I can not find any information on this Meylan stopwatch It is labeled on the face TYPE 203 D I see other models, but no references to this one when researching You may see the picture for the watch I am inquiring Thanks to all for helping
- Help identifying stopwatch,or a horse timer perhaps?
Get my hands on an early-looking stopwatch, nickel-plated case, a relatively small dial when compared to the case, no signatures found on the dial, the small subsidiary minute register dial can only record a maximum of ten minutes (minute totalizer hand moves anticlockwise when activated)
- O. K. I Believe This One is a Very Unusual Gallet Stopwatch Timer
Depending on the who was doing the measurements, either a minute-decimal stop watch, or a hour-decimal stopwatch was used As indicated on the dial yours is a hour-decimal stopwatch: the dial is divided in 100 spaces each of which represents 0 0001 hours Thus one complete revolution of the central hand corresponds to 0 01 hours, i e 36 seconds
- Elgin Jitterbugs - NAWCC Forums
The timer was also used as an instrument tool while firing ordinance By watching down-range, and knowing the muzzle velocity of the ordinance being fired, accurate distance and site adjustment can be calculated based on elapsed time determined to within fractions of a second
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