Ignatz Flying Pendulum

[macrumpton]

It is pretty amazing that it only requires one moving shaft. Everything else that moves is string. I wonder if you had 4 rods for the pendulum to wrap around if you could slow the motion down even more?

I was thinking that this might be a good mechanism to drive a tracking mechanism for parabolic solar cookers which need to track the sun to work well.

[rpraver1]

Any details on construction? More info.....

[parkjaehyoun]

good

[sspoke]

this is how grandfather clocks work and all automatic clocks in a similar design just no weight but a spring its the core of all clocks.

dam that shit is nice

[BenVanDeWaal]

Please, see my video Chinese(?) Clock. Do you know something more about it's origin?

BenVanDeWaal

[alexioco]

ah, i see, so it stops eventually, still a great invention though.. :)

[Karlfalcon]

Well, unless you keep winding it. It is an escapement mechanism after all.

[alexioco]

Does this thing use any form of electic, or does it power itself?

[rpartos]

it uses a fishing weight suspended on a thread wound around the little drum at the bottom.