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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
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SOUND ON
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://
;
SOUND ON
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
//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
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