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Time to Celebrate: NIST Radio Station WWVB Logs 50 Years of Innovation
2013-06-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Today, NIST's WWVB radio station is best known for broadcasting time to estimated 50 million radio-controlled clock radios, wall clocks, wristwatches, and other timekeeping devices across U.S. mainland. But back in 1963, station had a different audience, broadcasting standard frequencies at high accuracy needed by satellite and missile programs. Time signal, added 2 years later, then became means of synchronizing power plants to prevent brownouts, and coordinating analog telephone ...This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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