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English: The Boston Time Ball on the roof of the Equitable Life Assurance Society building, at the corner of Devonshire and Milk Streets, Boston MA. Caption and text on image is: "Boston Time-Ball Plate No 2, Heliotype Printing Co. Boston"
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Source "Information relative to the construction and maintenance of time-balls" United States War Department, Washington, D.C. 1881. [1]
Author Winslow Upton and William Babcock Hazen (editors)

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