Atomic Clock Turns 50

karvind writes "BBC has an interesting story on the 50th birthday of atomic clocks. The first accurate caesium atomic clock was developed at the NPL in 1955 by Dr Louis Essen. And after 5 decades In September the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) used computer chip fabrication techniques to make a small atomic clock. The final development should see a battery-operated system about the size of a sugar lump. NIST also has a page on history of atomic clocks"

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Re:When you first buy an atomic clock

[mog007]

"Atomic Clocks" that you buy arn't actully using atomic methods of vibrating cesium atoms to check the time, they're just radio receivers.