[time-nuts] Antique pendulum clocks

[jimlux]

On 11/20/19 5:51 PM, Bill Beam wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:10:14 -0500, Philip Gladstone wrote:
> 
>> I've started to monitor the individual ticks on a grandfather clock from
>> the 1790s. Essentially I timestamp whenever the pendulum breaks/restores a
>> light beam.
> 
>> The data that I get is surprising in that the pendulum swing varies
>> according to the position of the hands on the clock. It appears that the

> Most people interested in this problem have been dead for about 200 years.
> Also note that as the clock gets old and dirty it will begin to stop at 8:45.
> 
> Now if you want to see another old interesting clock problem look up the
> 'Thursday afternoon effect'.
> 

Now this time-geek-y stuff is why this list is interesting.

I'm waiting for someone to have hooked up a bunch of cheap metronomes on 
a common base to an array of TICCs...