Team doorhandle clock

[Mike Arman]

>Message: 26
>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:55:22 -0400
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>From: Brett Dikeman <quattro at pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>
>Subject: NEQ Fun Run report

>
>If Team Doorhandle built a clock, we found it.  This contraption had 
>a pentulum that consisted of an arm, with a chain at the end, and a 
>small lead weight at the end of the chain.  Situated at opposite ends 
>of the arm's 180 degree swing from left to right is a little post; 
>it's arranged with some other little devices so that the wire is 
>guided onto the post, the ball wraps around the post, unwraps, 
>re-wraps in a sightly different way, and then unwraps and flings the 
>arm back 180 degrees at the other post.  Repeat.
>
>This is quite possibly the most amusing way of keeping time.  The 
>card below the clock stated that it was the oddest clock in the 
>collection, and that, incidentally, it keeps horrible time.  Again, 
>team doorhandle at work.
>


This particular clock movement is known as a "verge et foliot" - which
translates fairly closely as "to fly madly about". (I am not making this up.)

Actually, these things were designed and built by the paleolithic ancestors
of team doorhandle. This tells me that weirdness in engineering breeds
genetically true. Ah, the horror, the horror!

Best Regards,

Mike Arman