Team doorhandle clock

[Thomas J. Donohue, Jr.]

Had one of those once...lost it in the divorce...she got the 911SC too...still
don't know how I've survived this long without either!  Sigh.  Tom

Mike Arman wrote:

> >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