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Webb C. Ball was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, on October 6, 1847 and became a jeweller & watchmaker. When Standard Time was adopted in 1883, he was the first jeweler to use time signals, bringing accurate time to Cleveland, Ohio. Fredericktown is a village located in Knox County, Ohio. ...
October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
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Upon a grave collision between Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railways at Kipton, Ohio, incurred because an engineer's watch had stopped unnoticed for about 5 minutes, the railroad officials commissioned Webb C. Ball as their General Time Inspector, in order to establish precision standards and a reliable timepiece inspection system for the Railroad chronometers. Kipton is a village located in Lorain County, Ohio. ...
Railroad chronometers (railroaders watches) were critical to the safe and correct operation of trains in the United States. ...
He established strict guidelines for the manufacturing of sturdy, reliable precision timepieces, including resistance to magnetism, reliability of time keeping in 5 positions, isochronism, power reserve, accompanied with record keeping of the reliability of the watch on each regular inspection.
The Waltham Watch Company complied immediately with the requirements of Ball's guidelines, later followed by Elgin Watch Company and most of the other American manufacturers, later on joined by some Swiss Watch Manufacturers. In 1850, Roxbury Massachusetts, David Davis, Edward Howard and Aaron Lufkin Dennison formed together the company that would later become the American Waltham Watch Company. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The National Watch Co. ...
Today's checking criterias for the certification of each COSC Officially Certified Chronometer are still based upon Webb C. Ball's standards. This article is about the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute, known by its French language acronym of COSC. For the state college in Connecticut, see Charter Oak State College. ...
A chronometer is a clock designed to have sufficient long-term accuracy that it can be used as a portable time standard on a vehicle, usually in order to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation. ...
At the end of his career, Webb C. Ball was overseeing over 125,000 miles of rail tracks in U.S.A., Mexico & Canada, having greatly contributed to the security of all railroad systems.
The colloquial phrase "on the ball" derives from Webb C. Ball's watch standards and their reputation for accuracy.
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