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2 unusual facts about Shortt-Synchronome clock


Frank Hope-Jones

The Synchronome company manufactured electrically operated master clocks, patented in 1907, such as the Shortt-Synchronome clock.

Shortt-Synchronome clock

This clock was purchased in 1929 and used in physicist Paul R. Heyl's measurement of the gravitational constant.


International Bodyguard Association

The IBA is run by the James Shortt, also known as James Shortt of Castleshort, or The Baron Castleshort, who was accused 2009 by a British tabloid newspaper as passing himself off as a much-decorated SAS and Parachute Regiment veteran.

James Shortt

In March 2009, Irish media uncovered the fact that Shortt's baronial "castle" was in fact only a modest house built within the village of Castlebellingham.


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