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Fifty years ago next October, the Ve Congrés International de Chronométrie was held in Paris. In its proceeding there is a paper by L. Essen which shows a drawing of a caesium-beam frequency standard then under construction. Measurements in the paper were referred to quartz ring oscillators. The caesium apparatus was still for the future. here I draw comparisons with that time. I also collate new...
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