BenBurch
Gatekeeper of The Left
I'm busy fixing it.
What an interesting thing.
Some of the wood isn't in great shape and I had to go to the doll house shop to find hardwood doweling as thin as I needed.
The roots simultaneously of all modern machines pass through this sort of mechanism, and it is amazing how crude they can be and still function.
This sort of clock isn't in vogue in the least few centuries for a good reason, though, the verge escapement, because it is a backlash escapement cannot be all that accurate, and the foliot changes length due to temperature variations and even humidity, being wooden, and these can gain or lose an hour in the day.
When I compare this to a ship's chronometer of only 500 years later it is like going from the Kitty Hawk Flyer to a 777. One wonders at the number of ideas that each had to take root to go from one to the other, and at the adaptability of we humans to be able to accomplish this; Our evolution fitted us to hunting and gathering - we learned to do these things against our nature, not because of it I feel.
And I wonder if it is only because man is the only animal to know discontent? Because you can really only have that if you can imagine something better.
What an interesting thing.
Some of the wood isn't in great shape and I had to go to the doll house shop to find hardwood doweling as thin as I needed.
The roots simultaneously of all modern machines pass through this sort of mechanism, and it is amazing how crude they can be and still function.
This sort of clock isn't in vogue in the least few centuries for a good reason, though, the verge escapement, because it is a backlash escapement cannot be all that accurate, and the foliot changes length due to temperature variations and even humidity, being wooden, and these can gain or lose an hour in the day.
When I compare this to a ship's chronometer of only 500 years later it is like going from the Kitty Hawk Flyer to a 777. One wonders at the number of ideas that each had to take root to go from one to the other, and at the adaptability of we humans to be able to accomplish this; Our evolution fitted us to hunting and gathering - we learned to do these things against our nature, not because of it I feel.
And I wonder if it is only because man is the only animal to know discontent? Because you can really only have that if you can imagine something better.
At the beginning of the video I thought you were holding the camera at 45 degrees, the clock lying on a table...