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Here’s a detailed animation of how the Elephant Clock works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCW_wp0dgF4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCW_wp0dgF4

• nicheasta 8y ago
  And how is the disk at the top rotated? I'm talking about the one that shows the number of hours since the sunrise.
  • smudgymcscmudge 8y ago
    I was wondering the same thing. The wikipedia article discusses it a bit under the heading “passage of temporal hours”, but I couldn’t visualize it. I was hoping the video would clarify that.
  • cicero 8y ago
    It appears that the dropping ball does something to advance it.