Dispatches / a short note
Mechanical Watches
Every cog in the machine
The ruby stone, the movement, the beat rate, the chained gears, the elastic potential, the automatic winding… how many radians it need to turn per beat? how would they even developed this mechanical wonder… mechanical watches and analogue computers fascinate me.
really amazing site, with artistic illustration and explaination: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591084