On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Charles J Knight wrote: > Does anyone know if a self-winding mechanism was ever put on a full > sized clock? Something like a ship's chronometer would have been > a natural, since the movement on the water would have kept it wound. I don't know if such a thing was technically possible back in the heyday of ship's chronometers, but I doubt that it was ever implemented even if it was possible. Keeping the ship's chronometer wound was an important point of naval discipline, since losing track of the exact time had severe consequences (i.e. getting lost in the middle of the ocean!). I doubt that a ship's captain would go for a chronometer that would keep itself wound "as long as it got shook around enough"! John Flanagan -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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