Michael Diesso
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402: FreemantleTimeBall

Date:17 Feb 2005
Comments:The Black Orb is a "time ball"; at noon each day a cannon fires and the time ball drops.
Time balls were used in the past to synchronize clocks in widely-separated towns.

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