Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] >Perhaps also the dial that uses fiber glass wires to transport the sunspot to any convienient spot could be mentioned, however the baic concept is an equatorial dial..
These kind of dials only could be made thanks to new technology in our times.< That is true, Fer, but I submit that it is not a new design of dial as a result. It is just as new as a dial where the view of the shadow is taken by a video camera to another place. It is applying a (new) viewing technology to an existing design. I suggest that in all this we have to take a view rather as a patent officer would over a proposed new invention. Some things are inventions and others are obvious extensions of an original idea. Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forwarding addresses: E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.dunelm.org.uk/homepages?patrick_powers Lat: N 51d. 49m. 09s: Long: W 00d. 21m. 53s -
