The Corpus Clock & Chronophage

For a higher resolution of this click here: www.youtube.com famous scientist Stephen Hawking is a great clock with no hands and shows time with the help of revealing light. Known as the Corpus Clock, the machine was invented and developed by Dr. John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the new building the college library. The clock is 19 September by Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the book are presented, the GlobalBestseller, A Brief History of Time. Dr. Taylor, an inventor and watchmaker, has £ 500,000 of his own money and seven years developing the clock, which was based on a drawing of a clock of the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of the song inspired in touch. John Harrison's many innovations, he came with the 'grasshopper escapement, explained Dr Taylor, based on the device from Harrison to rotational motion into a pendulum motion to turn timing. No one knows how aGrasshopper escapement works, so I decided to turn the clock in and out, and instead of escapement 35 mm in width, is 1.5 m wide, he said. He calls the new version of the escapement Chronophage time (time-eater), a terrible beast which drives the clock, literally eating. For more information visit www.corpusclock.co.uk

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