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[edit] Velocity measuring instrument
- a chronograph is a thing that you use in paintball by putting the tip of your gun on it and shooting your gun and it tell you how many feet per second your gun is shooting at. (this previously unsigned comment -- 17:50, 4 March 2006 65.33.75.169)
- To more clearly state the previous comment, where is the article for the chronograph commonly used for measuring the time it takes for a projectile to pass between two points, ie measure the velocity? Qleem 08:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- [1] covers it pretty well, and it's public domain, so somebody could start an article from it pretty quickly. --Interiot 16:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- I added a link (since I needed one elsewhere, in proof test) Paul Koning 21:12, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
- [1] covers it pretty well, and it's public domain, so somebody could start an article from it pretty quickly. --Interiot 16:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- To more clearly state the previous comment, where is the article for the chronograph commonly used for measuring the time it takes for a projectile to pass between two points, ie measure the velocity? Qleem 08:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Chronograph wrist watches
This sentence is definitely wrong: "The Breitling Navitimer is the world's oldest chronograph wrist watch (first produced in 1952).[2]" I know for a fact that the german Luftwaffe used chronograph wrist watches made by the Hanhart company. These existed in the years preceding WW2 as well, and was known as the fliegerchronograph. I will therefore delete the above-mentioned sentence. SWA (talk) 13:27, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] This article is spam
"Chronograph" is a term with a very wide range of meanings, and there are probably dozens of kinds of chronographs, few of which are watches. The use of the term "chronograph" to refer to watches seems to be relatively recent (1880s?), restricted to watches with specialized "complications" for timing events, and perhaps rather inflated: there is no obvious meaningful distinction between "watch", "chronograph" or "chronometer" in advertising except that the last two sound more sophisticated. I'd say "chronograph" in reference to watches is marketingspeak, mostly, even if it's been marketingspeak for over a century. The 1911 Encyclopedia linked at "gun chronograph" has a lot of interesting, valuable, and significant history about chronograph techniques, covering chronographs not only for guns but also for physiological purposes. Chronographs have also been used in calibrating musical instruments like pianos. This article has exactly one live external reference -- to a vendor of watches. So: this article is spam. It should be completely rewritten, with "chronograph" in the sense now covered relegated to a separate, subsidiary article of some kind, or maybe simply redirected to the article about watches. Yakushima (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I came to this article because i wanted to know what "Chronograph" on my watch means. I clearlygot my answer. Whats the problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.19.158.31 (talk) 07:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
