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Uploaded by CorpusChronophage on Sep 24, 2008
The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building.
It will be unveiled on 19 September by Prof Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the global bestseller, A Brief History of Time.
The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honour the John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement.
The clock has been designed by the inventor and horologist Dr John Taylor and makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from the inside of the clock to the outside and refashioning it as a Chronophage, or time-eater, which literally devours time.
For more information, log on to http://www.corpusclock.co.uk
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I want one, but I don't think I'd want to wake up to that cronophage in the middle of the night.
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Was the Mona Lisa useless? How about Michelangelo's David? This is a true art of engineering. The ignorance of some is almost as astonishing as this clock.
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I am concerned about the ignorance of this post. The energy used could to post this could have been spent on something more useful.
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I love the clock, but also find it quite sinister!
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Wonderful piece of art. Loved it
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@PhallusCooper only someone who couldn't read an analog clock would say it's useless =P
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Holy crap it blinked O_O
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Super...I have built 2 grasshopper clocks. That one is a thing of beauty!!!
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jez du haben ewiges problem weil du probleme so lieben
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a thing of beauty. i work and have done for some years in engineering and to see this blew me away and to see how it worked is heart warming. thank you for sharing this.
bizzyfingers 2 years ago 9
When Professor Hawking unveils the clock, I wonder if he will give a brief history of the timepiece?
Nilpotence 1 year ago 3