10,000 Year Clock Challenges Approach To Time http://tinyurl.com/ofguvu2 http://www.npr.org/2013/12/31/258548386/10-000-year-old-clock-challenges-appro ach-to-time
Audio is 6:15 But the project began simply when Danny Hillis heard a story about New College, one of the oldest colleges at the University of Oxford, founded in the 1300s. HILLIS: Sometime this century, they were renovating the common room and they needed some 40-foot oak beams to replace the originals. And of course, by then you couldn't just go down to the lumber yard and buy a 40 foot oak beam. But they knew that Oxford had some forests that it owned and so they asked the forester if there were any oak trees that they could harvest. and the forester said, oh, yes. We have the ones that were planted to replace the beams in New College. ----------- Google found this: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-beams-new-college-oxford "Well sirs, we was wonderin' when you'd be askin". -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
