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| A spectactular early example concerns John Harrison and his
| chronometers.
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
| He needed to build an oscillator (in this case a mass on a
| spring) in such a way that it was highly insensitive to
| "frame forces" including those due to acceleration, rotation,
| changing acceleration, changing rotation, et cetera.
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| This
A good short read is the book "longitude", by Sobel