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Building an Impossible Clock
- im2w1l 11y agoPrevious discussion (april 2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402297
- SeanDav 11y agoBut for the work of 1 man - Martin Burgess, this is yet another marvel of old technology that may have been lost forever, along with Greek Fire, Roman Concrete, Damascus Steel and many others.
- mathgenius 11y ago> As the name suggests, the language is dense and convoluted. The contemporary British clockmaker George Daniels has called the text “rubbish”; Rupert Gould, the author of the biography Burgess read, described it as “gibberish.” This is the mark of a strong "right-brainer": completely inspired but struggling to communicate it.
- tehwalrus 11y agoSee also: a film about Harrison, and his designs for a sea-voyage-proof clock. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192263/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192263/ (I enjoyed the film many years ago, and I can't recall what, if anything, it has in the way of technical details.)