Team doorhandle clock

[Thomas J. Donohue, Jr.]

BTW, the one I lost in the divorce was called a "Flying Pendulum Clock."  Tom

Andrew Buc wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:39:30, Mike Arman wrote:
>
> >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.)
> >
>
> In 1991, I saw an interesting clock, made in the 1820's, I think, at
> the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It had a ball bearing rolling
> on a rectangular metal tray. The tray had a series of channels so the
> the ball's path had to cover virtually the whole surface of the tray as
> it rolled. When it had made its way from one corner of the tray to the
> opposite corner, a mechanism tilted the tray the other way, and the
> ball was off again, back the way it came. According to the writeup in
> the display, grit in the channels could throw the timing off, so it
> didn't keep time as well as the inventor envisioned.