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Astro-skeleton clock with orrery by Mark Frank.
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13:45 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdmaUYZNR8
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...621#post143372
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...686#post143587
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...128#post130266
Someone had to "think" of this, makes my head hurt just thinking about the amount of thinking that went into actually making this.
"Ditto" what Ralph said. There has to be several thousand hours of thinking that went into this clock. Perhaps one persons whole lifetime.
I can not even begin to imagine what kind of mind enhancing drugs it took for someone to dream this up.
Surely it began as a much more mundane device and blossomed from the concept as time went on
If I owned a clock company, and my clock design engineer came to me and said "Hey boss , I came up with a new clock", and I saw that, I would ask him if he invented and built that on his own time. If he said it was on company time with company money, I would tar and feather him and then draw and quarter him.
What an incredible piece of work.
Incredible piece of work.
Not me, The first thing I would do would be to have it sealed in a glass enclosure placed in the center of the company foyer. Then I would aske him for a complete bill of materials, detailed drawings of each and every part, documented assembly instructions, an estimated real time reproduction cost. then confer with production staff as to the feasibility of producing them on a limited basis. Tell marketing to promote it at 100 times the actual cost to reproduce. Something of this intracity and beauty is too valuable to be a one off. once the first copy sold I would give the design build originator a huge bonus and encourage him to come up with something else.Quote:
Originally Posted by owen moore
I always enjoy reading the back story of how a device was conceived and the design carried out through completion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus
I still say they must have been taking some smart pills to come up with this
After reading that I am even more in awe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus
http://www.my-time-machines.net
I think they made _all_ the parts,
https://youtu.be/bnoztEvCDrk
After reading [URL="https://nawcc.org/images/stories/public_articles/425_32_52.pdf"] my mind is beginning to melt.
Who is paying for this, how much?
During the days when Mr. Harrison and his son built their 2 clocks and the large watch that finally gave the world a reliable method to find both the Latitude and Longitude of any place on earth, the government of England paid for the clock. And the English Navy flourished. Mr Harrison's first clock was paid for by Mr. Harrison's employer at the farm where Harrison lived and worked. It was a wooden clock on the roof of the barn. Mr Harrison invented the "Harrison grasshopper escapement" for this wooden clock that was also used in today's Astro-skeleton clock. Mr Harrison was a carpenter.
I would not be surprised to find some government today is paying for the Astro-skeleton clock.