Fao Stuey

[retrocop]

Greetings Stuey,
I have a hunch,from previous posts, that you are interested in Horology.
Thought you might enjoy this 4 min clip. Not a clock but clockwork and over 2 hundred years old. Fascinating.
Regards

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton


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SOUND ON

[paddywak]

They had some proper craftsmen in those days retro.

[retrocop]

They did indeed. Made me wonder why it took so long to progress to a mechanical computer as in bombas and enigma machines etc.

[paddywak]

There were probably people working on that sort of thing all the time,which is why the Germans were able to have the Enigma in use early in the war.As they say necessity is the mother of invention and there's nothing like a war to focus one's mind.

[retrocop]

Too true. Still there are good sides when you think of all the huge medical advances in trauma injuries that have developed from the battlefield to the General Hospitals.etc

[paddywak]

I agree retro,some marvelous developments in the medical field have come about because of battle field trauma.It's just a shame it took some terrible events to find them.

[retrocop]

Very much agree there.

[stuey]

That’s amazing, Retrocop. To come up with the concept of it is almost as brilliant as the actual construction. Some of the old Black Forest cuckoo clocks, with their many complications, come close to this, but don’t quite match it. For some reason, the doll brings to mind a young Mozart penning some of his early music.

[retrocop]

Stuey
Pleased you liked it.

[Peter Pedant]

//They did indeed. Made me wonder why it took so long to progress to a mechanical computer as in bombas and enigma machines etc. //

because the two are really quite different

Turing 'jumped' to registers and the idea of a program which automata dont have. Babbage designed one ~1865 and elicited absolutely no interest at all even Disraeli commented [o dear] what shall we do with Mr Babbage's difference engine.

There is a lot on the internet on Turing, Enigma solution, and computers