[time-nuts] Non electrical time-nuttery

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Sat Jan 9 20:17:25 UTC 2010


See the Long Now website for the 10000 year clock. There is a prototype,
but the "big clock" has sort of stopped. Needs some stimulus money to keep
going?
An interesting project, a mechanical binary system.
Don



Lux, Jim (337C)
> OK.. So we're moving back in electrical technology....
> But what about mechanical?  Could modern technology get a substantial
> (>order of magnitude) improvement over 19th century chronometers (either
> pendulum or balance wheel or whatever).  I know there's some really good
> quartz fiber torsional spring schemes, but I think they still need
> electrical means to keep them moving and to read it out.
>
> So how good can one do with a mechanical, hydraulic, (or chemical, I
> suppose) system?  Let's assume it has to have a "direct" readout that is
> human readable by a causal bystander.  (this starts to sound like the
> 10,000 year clock or whatever it is..)
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