Roger Bailey wrote:

> Some really smart person could automate this. Mount the moon dial on a well
> connected to the sea. The height of water in the well would vary with the
> tides. This could be used to drive a mechanism to shift the dial to correct
> for the lunar equation of time. Do I have an invention here? Rube Goldberg
> probably beat me to the patent office.
>
> and 1000 km from tide water.


plus about 1100 m above sea level! :-)

- fernando


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