Team doorhandle clock

[Lawrence C Leung]

Wow!

That mustuv hurt! I'm sorry....very sorry. 

LL - NY

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:36:56 -0400 "Thomas J. Donohue, Jr."
<donohue at netconnx.net> writes:
>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
>