Team doorhandle clock

[Lawrence C Leung]

Brett,

Ya know, in all of our utter fascination of the utter ridiculousnous of
the Team Doorhandle clock, we neglected to check the heritage of the
designer/builders of the clock. I wonder if the word Ingolstadt (sp?)
would have been familiar to them?

LL - NY

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:39:30 Mike Arman <armanmik at n-jcenter.com> writes:
>>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
>