I like your rather poetic point of view :o)
Jean-Louis
Le 23/11/2019 à 14:27, Matt Osborn a écrit :
Pretty nice, I've always wondered why clocks weren't designed this
way. Hours last too long and estimating minutes from the hour hand is
minimally useful while seconds are too fast and mostly irrelevant for
human use.
Reading the time as so many minutes past whichever hour is very
natural and informative.
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 09:29:09 +0100, Jean-Louis Rault <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi all
A friend of mine offered me a secondary electric clock that was in use
at Observatoire Royal de Belgique, in Brussels, at the end of the 19th
century.
The manufacturer is Peyer Favarger & Co, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
I'm wondering why the largest hand is used for minutes, and the smaller
hands for hours and seconds
Any idea ?
Jean-Louis
-- kc0ukk at msosborn dot com
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