$1.83 Million Clock is weird and possibly worthless…
A $1.83 Million clock was unveiled by Stephen Hawking the other day. The clock works by the big grasshopper eating seconds and minutes of time.
What do we think? It’s worthless great piece of art but we’d rather see the million dollars go to the 3rd world countries or the cancer society. Perhaps, they used Stephen Hawking as marketing-ploy here, otherwise the $1.83 Million spent would look really bad….(ON A FREAKIN CLOCK?!?)
The clock was designed by John Taylor, an inventor who made his fortune developing the kettle thermostat after graduating from Corpus Christi in the 1950s.
Dr Taylor, 72, constructed the unusual timepiece in tribute to John Harrison, the world’s greatest clockmaker, who solved the problem of longitude in the 18th century.
Around 1722 the English master clockmaker came up with the grasshopper escapement – a tiny internal device that releases the clock’s gears to move forward at each swing of the pendulum.
Dr Taylor said: ‘I decided to turn the clock inside out. Instead of hiding the grasshopper escapement inside the clock, I wanted it to be around the outside so you can see the seconds being eaten up.
He calls the new version of the escapement a ‘Chronophage’ which means time eater.
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