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Keeping Time By Rubidium at the Naval Observatory


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U.S. Naval Observatory

Credit: U.S. Naval Observatory

You know when you dial a number, and a man reads you the exact time at the tone? That precise timekeeping starts at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.

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