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Paper, 'A contrivance to avoid irregularities in a clock's motion occasioned by the action of heat and cold upon the pendulum' by George Graham

Reference number: CLP/3ii/20

Date: 18 April 1726

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Graham, a watchmaker, shares observations on the curiosities in the measuring of time. He notes that the vibrations of a pendulum are slower in summer than in winter, and suggests that this arises from a change of length in the pendulum itself, by the influences of heat and cold upon it, in the different seasons of the year.

Subject: Physics / Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A contrivance to avoid the irregularities in a clocks motion, occasion'd by the action of heat and cold upon the rod of the pendulum'

Read to the Royal Society on 28 April 1726

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CLP/3ii/20
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18 April 1726
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Ink on paper
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5 pages
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Manuscript

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George Graham

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George Graham, Paper, 'A contrivance to avoid irregularities in a clock's motion occasioned by the action of heat and cold upon the pendulum' by George Graham, 18 April 1726, CLP/3ii/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3ii_20/paper-a-contrivance-to-avoid-irregularities-in-a-clocks-motion-occasioned-by-the-action-of-heat-and-cold-upon-the-pendulum-by-george-graham, accessed on 05 December 2025

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