| Webb C. Ball’s Railroad Chronometer | |
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Origin |
Webb C. Ball |
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Type |
Railroad Chronometer |
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Effects |
Can speed up or slow down the flow of time |
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Downsides |
Person ages at the same rate |
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Activation |
Holding and focusing |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
10593-1281 |
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Shelf |
9625-6469-775 |
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Date of Collection |
March 16, 1952 |
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Origins[]
Webb C. Ball was a watchmaker from Ohio when the railroads decided to incorporate time signals into the conductor's responsibilities. A train at the time had crashed when an engineer’s watch had stopped working, causing many injuries. This accident prompted the railroad business to make sure their new timepieces were extremely accurate, at the forefront of the technology. Ball and his company created a railroad chronometer that was widely used in the industry at the time.
Effects[]
The chronometer allows for a person to control the speed of time over a localized area. They can speed it up, slow it down, and cause time to stop in one moment. The only problem is that for how fast time moves, the person ages at that same rate. For example, if you sped time up to where one day would equal ten years, your body would physically age ten years.
Trivia[]
- Inspired the Twilight Zone episode A Kind of Stopwatch.
- Was used during Spring Cleaning to counteract the New York City WABC Record Playing Equipment and neutralize it.