Electric clock manufacturer
Synchronome Company (Shortt-Synchronome)
Also recorded as: The Synchronome Company Limited · Synchronome · William Hamilton Shortt · Frank Hope-Jones
Makers of electric master-and-slave clock systems and of the Shortt free-pendulum clock.
Frank Hope-Jones and George Bennett Bowell developed the Synchronome electric remontoire system in the 1890s; the company supplied master clocks driving slave dials in offices, factories and railways. With railway engineer William Hamilton Shortt it produced from 1921 the Shortt-Synchronome free-pendulum clock, the most accurate pendulum clock ever made and the observatory standard until quartz.
- Country
- England
- City / centre
- London
- Founded
- 1897
- Status
- Historical firm
- Key people
- Frank Hope-Jones; George Bennett Bowell; William Hamilton Shortt
Innovations & specialities
- Synchronome master clock
- Shortt free-pendulum clock (1921)
Works by Synchronome Company (Shortt-Synchronome) in the catalogue
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Clocks · 1890-1930
Clock with 8-inch impulse dial, by the Synchronome Company Limited, England, 1890-1930.
Science Museum Group, London
Clocks · 1900-1935
Clock by The Synchronome Company Limited, England, 1900-1935
Science Museum Group, London
Movements & Components · 1900-1935
Pendulum from the synchronome clock, by The Synchronome Company Limited, London, England, United Kingdom, 1900-1935
Science Museum Group, London
Movements & Components · before 1935
Pendulum from the Shortt free pendulum clock, by the Synchronome Company Limited, London, United Kingdom, 1920-1940
Science Museum Group, London
Movements & Components · before 1935
Pendulum top palette from the Shortt free pendulum clock, by the Synchronome Company Limited, London, United Kingdom, 1920-1940
Science Museum Group, London
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