Hong, Dae-Yong manufactured the Tongcheon-ui (Pan-celestial Armillary Sphere) with cooperating clock researcher Na, Kyeong-Jeok, and its craftsman An, Cheo-In, in Naju of Jeolla Province in 1760 ~ 1762. Tongcheon-ui is a kind of astronomical clock with an armillary sphere which is rotated by the force generated by a lantern clock’s weight. In our study, we examine the lantern clock model of Tongcheon-ui through its description of the articles written by Hong himself. As his description, however, did not explain the detail of the mechanical process of the lantern clock, we investigate the remains of lantern clocks in the possession of Korea University Museum and Seoul National University Museum. Comparing with the clocks of these museums, we designed the lantern clock model of Tongcheon-ui which measures 115 mm (L) × 115 mm (W) × 307 mm (H). This model has used the structure of the striking train imitated from the Korea University Museum artifact and is also regulated by a foliot escapement which is connected to a going train for timekeeping. The orientation of the rotation of the going train and the striking train of our model makes a difference with the remains of both university museums. That is, on the rotation axis of the first gear set of Tongcheon-ui’s lantern clock, the going and the striking trains take on a counterclockwise and clockwise direction, respectively. The weight of 6.4 kg makes a force driving these two trains to stick to the pulley on the twine pulling across two spike gears corresponding to the going train and the striking train. This weight below the pulley may travel down about 560 mm per day. We conclude that the mechanical system of Tongcheon-ui’s lantern clock is slightly different from the Japanese style.

In this paper, we describe the proposed KVN (Korean VLBI Network) clock system in order to make the observation of the VLBI effectively. In general, the GPS system is widely used for the time information in the single dish observation. In the case of VLBI observation, a very high precise frequency standard is needed to perform the observation in accordance with the observation frequency using the radio telescope with over 100km distance. The objective of the high precise clock system is to insert the time-tagging information to the observed data and to synchronize it with the same clock in overall equipments which used in station. The AHM (Active Hydrogen Maser) and clock system are basically used as a frequency standard equipments at VLBI station. This system is also adopted in KVN. The proposed KVN clock system at each station consists of the AHM, GPS time comparator, standard clock system, time distributor, and frequency standard distributor. The basic experiments were performed to check the AHM system specification and to verify the effectiveness of implemented KVN clock system. In this paper, we briefly introduce the KVN clock system configuration and experimental results.

토마토 펄라이트 자루재배에서 배지종류별 유효수분 함량을 분석하여 관수안정성을 구명하고, 배지 내 수분이 시간의 경과 및 일사량에 따라 변해가는 양상을 조사함으로써 타이머 제어시 관수 전략을 수립하고자 실험을 수행하였다. 5단 수확이 끝난 토마토 6그루가 심겨져 있는 40L 크기의 펄라이트 배지를 배양액으로 포수시킨 후 배지 내 수분감소를 무게로 측정하였다. 배지 내 수분이 감소함에 따라 일중 무게 변화량도 감소하는 경향을 나타냈다. 무게 감소가 계측된 시간에서 다음으로 무게 감소가 계측된 시간까지 걸리는 시간 간격을 볼 때, 일중 최장 무게 변화와 흡수속도가 모두 점차 늦어지는 현상이었다. 즉, 수분스트레스에 의해 식물활력의 회복이 일출 후 점차 느려지는 것으로 나타났다. 실험에 사용한 배지의 경우 유효수분량은 30% 정도로 12kg이므로 배지의 수분보수력은 토마토의 수분 요구도를 만족하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 실험에서와 같은 상황일 경우 일일적산일사량이 1,519W/m2 혹은 601W/m2일 때, 관수를 하루에 5회 혹은 10회 타이머를 이용하여 공급할 경우의 적정 시간을 도출했다.

In this paper, we describe a principle of the atomic frequency standard and clock system in VLBI(Very Long Baseline Interferometry). The hydrogen maser is a usual VLBI standard. During VLBI observations, signals emitted by distant sources of radio frequency energy(quasars) are received and recorded at several antennas. At each antenna(VLBI station), a very stable frequency standard(hydrogen maser) provides a reference signal which enables time-tagging to the quasar signals as they are being recorded on magnetic tapes or hard-disk modules. For each VLBl experiment, correlation of the time-tagged recorded information between the participating antennas is used to yield the arrival time differences of any specific quasar radio wave between the antennas. These time differences are used to calculate the relative antennas to each other. In this paper, we also introduce the KVN(Korean VLBI Network) atomic frequency standard and clock system.