"After about eight months of trying to use [calculated] measurements, Mr. duPont got disgusted and said we would build the sundial ourselves after working out our own measurements. Both Roland Taylor and I [Knowles R. Bowen] began the task of taking actual observations on the sun at 12 noon every day, after checking our time with the Naval Observatory at Annapolis. If the sun was not out, we could not get that day’s sighting until the following year, or maybe two years later, which explains why the project took so long."
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