Post by willi1 on Aug 23, 2023 18:48:11 GMT
A mechanical curiosity is this clock in Cahors, France, from 1997.
A double-barreled ball track is controlled by a balance beam in such a way that a ball hits the rotating mechanism in the middle every 15 seconds. This drives the hands of the clock, so the clock "walks" by means of the kinetic energy of the balls (80 g weight each). Only the lifting mechanism for the balls is electrically driven.
A double-barreled ball track is controlled by a balance beam in such a way that a ball hits the rotating mechanism in the middle every 15 seconds. This drives the hands of the clock, so the clock "walks" by means of the kinetic energy of the balls (80 g weight each). Only the lifting mechanism for the balls is electrically driven.
Two years of work for its designer, Michel Zachariou. This mechanism came out of his imagination without calculation, by experimentation and trial and error to find the isochronism of the pendulum.