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The Clock

LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
edited 2015-01-23 20:37 in General Discussion
This is an amazing piece of work:

http://techno-logic-art.com/clock.htm

How on earth anyone would have the patience to make such a thing beats me.

His other creations are equally mind-boggling! He intends to make an electronic calculator using similar construction techniques.

Comments

  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2015-01-23 12:14
    How extraordinary! He must be the reincarnation of John Harrison.

    -Phil
  • Hal AlbachHal Albach Posts: 747
    edited 2015-01-23 12:33
    His other completed project, "The Tower" has a beautiful power supply in it's base that is itself a fine work of geometric art.

    Hal
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-23 12:37
    Good grief. Took me a while to realize what I was looking at there.

    That's up there with the guy that built an entire digital clock with vacuum tubes for logic and nixies for display. Sadly I can't find the link anymore as google is overrun with nixie tube clocks now a days.

    Knocks the socks of my TTL/Nixie clock from 1970 something.
  • Mike CookMike Cook Posts: 829
    edited 2015-01-23 13:47
    Heater. wrote: »

    That's up there with the guy that built an entire digital clock with vacuum tubes for logic and nixies for display. Sadly I can't find the link anymore as google is overrun with nixie tube clocks now a days.

    http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbriefe/Bruegmann-Digital-Roehren-Clock/Digital-Roehrenuhr.htm
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-01-23 14:05
    Mike Cook,

    Hey thanks, that's the guy. No wonder I could not find it, being in German and all. Another work of art.

    But wait, that site does not look how I remember, I could have sworn the one I do remember was American.

    Can there really be two people in the world to have done such a crazy thing?
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2015-01-23 19:23
    Wow. Imagine: a clock that not only tells the time, but heats your house, too!

    -Phil
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2015-01-23 20:37
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Wow. Imagine: a clock that not only tells the time, but heats your house, too!

    -Phil

    My first thought as well.
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