Personalities behind The One o'clock Gun

Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland

Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth not only set up the Nelson Monument time ball, he also worked out the details for the One o'clock Gun time service. The Astronomer Royal for Scotland was assisted by his wife Jessie who was an amateur geologist. Photograph courtesy of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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