Thursday, November 29, 2012

Pin-pallet video

Here's the pocket watch movement mentioned on a previous post functioning.  The amplitude of the balance wheel is fairly low but not bad for the quality of the movement.

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  1. It might be old hat for you but if not I think you'll enjoy this, "Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers". It's a series of 1950s Navy videos explaining how mechanical computation is done.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

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    1. Thank you, this should prove informative. After all a mechanical watch is nothing more than a simple mechanical computer.

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