http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE ATLANTIS
RISING, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 101
DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04
HELICOPTER.
VOICE (over radio): All inbound craft, we have a rogue drone that could seek a target on its own. Land immediately and shut down your engines. This is not a drill. I repeat …
SHEPPARD: It's too late.
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http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE ATLANTIS
RISING, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 101
DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04
SHEPPARD: That was different.
O'NEILL: For me, not so much.
ANCIENT OUTPOST. Lieutenant Aiden Ford runs over to report to Doctor Weir.
FORD: Major Sheppard is reporting the drone appears to have been incapacitated. (Weir sighs in relief. Beckett, still sitting in the Chair, does likewise.) General O'Neill's helicopter is unharmed and on its way again. Seven minutes out.
WEIR: Thank God.
BECKETT: Holy crap!
SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. Daniel Jackson walks over to the elevator as O'Neill and Sheppard get off it.
JACKSON: Jack!
O'NEILL: Daniel! Warm welcome.
JACKSON: Wasn't me. How did you manage to, uh ...?
O'NEILL: Keep my ass from gettin' blown out of the sky? (He turns and gestures to Sheppard.) The exceptional flying of Major John Sheppard. He likes it here.
From 10/25/1960 ( the debut of the Bulova Accutron wristwatch ) To 7/16/2004 is 15970 days
15970 = 7985 + 7985
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA ) To 9/13/1987 ( from the official United States Navy documents of Kerry Burgess: "Realm Of The Arctic Circle" ) is 7985 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/05/stargate-atlantis.html ]
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/06/stargate.html ]
http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-atlantis/rising-1-281227/
tv.com
Stargate Atlantis Season 1 Episode 1
Rising (1)
AIRED: 7/16/04
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/14684143/buyable-past-accutron-watches
EBSCO HOST Connection
TITLE THE BUYABLE PAST: ACCUTRON WATCHES
AUTHOR(S) Lander, David
PUB. DATE October 2004
SOURCE American Heritage;Oct2004, Vol. 55 Issue 5, p20
SOURCE TYPE Periodical
DOC. TYPE Article
ABSTRACT This article focuses on a historical event when on October 25, 1960, Bulova Corp. unveiled a battery-powered watch called the Accutron. A Bulova technical whiz named Max Hetzel had begun developing the Accutron in Switzerland in 1952 and later relocated the project to the company's U.S. head-quarters. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson later made Accutron the official sift of state, and all the clocks on Air Force One employed Accutron technology. Owners of vintage Accutrons face a special set of problems today. Collectible watches have to be in good working order, but not many people can maintain or repair old Accutrons properly, and finding parts for them can be difficult.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-pursuit-of-the-ultimate-accuracy-in-timekeeping-bulova-introduces-precisionist-at-baselworld-88453452.html
PR Newswire
In Pursuit of the Ultimate Accuracy in Timekeeping, Bulova Introduces Precisionist at BaselWorld
NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- At BaselWorld, the watch world and jewelry show, Bulova Corporation introduced its newest technology platform, Bulova Precisionist, the world's most accurate watch with a continuous sweeping second hand. The new technology comes 50 years after the launch of Bulova Accutron, and is being unveiled at BaselWorld along with a Limited Edition replica of the original Accutron Spaceview 214. Bulova has also announced it will be the official timepiece partner of Cirque du Soleil™ (Varekai™) in Switzerland, and in celebration of this partnership there will be a special performance at BaselWorld choreographed specifically for Bulova.
When Accutron debuted on October 25, 1960 it was the most accurate timing mechanism available and the first personal timekeeping advancement in 300 years. The world's first electronic watch without springs or an escapement, it was operated by an electronically activated tuning fork, instead of a ticking it hummed.
http://iwmagazine.com/2011/08/history-of-time-part-11/
international WATCH
HISTORY OF TIME PART 11
BY: KEITH FLAMER AUGUST 2, 2011
Fork in the Road
Electric clocks use electric current as a power source instead of a weight or spring. In essence, the electric clock is an electric motor synchronized with an alternating current power line (60 hertz in the United States). The accuracy of these watches depends entirely upon the AC frequency.
Tuning fork watches (introduced by Bulova in 1960) used a 360 hertz tuning fork to drive a mechanical watch. Since the fork is used in place of a typical balance wheel, these watches had a natural hum instead of ticking. The inventor, Max Hetzel, was born in Basel, Switzerland, and joined the Bulova Watch Company of Bienne, Switzerland, in 1948. Hetzel was the first to use an electronic device, a transistor, in a wristwatch. Thus, he developed the first watch that could be qualified as electronic.
However, fork movements are actually more “electrical,” like an old electrical wall clock, then electronic. The sweep seconds hand moves fluidly like that in an old electrical wall clock. Such watches were also sold by Swiss watch companies under license of Bulova.
Tuning fork movements are electromechanical. The task of converting electronically pulsed fork vibration into rotary movement is done via two tiny jeweled fingers that are connected to one of the the tuning fork’s tines. As the fork vibrates, the jeweled fingers precisely ratchet a tiny index wheel. This index wheel has over 300 barely visible teeth and spins more than 38 million times per year. The tiny electric coils that drive the tuning fork have 8,000 turns of insulated copper wire with a diameter of 0.015 mm and a length of 90 meters. This amazing feat of engineering was prototyped in the 1950s.
Swiss watch quality was high, but new technology such as the Hamilton Electric Watch, introduced in 1957, and the Bulova Accutron tuning fork watch, introduced on October 25, 1960, foreshadowed a technology showdown on the horizon.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:42 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 27 June 2016
