----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:36
PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]: Half baked idea
Robin, Harry,
Clocks run by turning gears having force applied to the gear train, and
if a gear starts skipping teeth from vibration, the clock will loose time or
not operate as the only way to skip a tooth is if that tooth is missing.
Vibration has nothing to do with the timekeeping ability of clocks or watches,
unless it is from the vibration of the quartz timer, which is electronic and
not effected by physical vibration.
Timepieces can be adjusted for temperature and pressure - which
can effect the hairspring timing by changes in humidity. Also multiple
positions can be adjusted for, but most old clocks on a wall were
regulators, tripping the escapement with each repeating swing of the pendulum,
and timing was controlled by raising or lowering the pendulum weight. I don't
normally say things like this, but I find it highly unlikely that vibration
was the factor (more likely impossible). If consistent vibration could lower
or increase the speed of a clock, it would keep right on going requiring
frequent resetting - whereby the pendulum would be adjusted until it kept
acceptable time.
I believe there were just as many jokesters in the 1600's as there ever
where (including here) - and many times a good bridge has been sold for
scrap.
Best Regards (didn't mean to jump on you Robin)
Chris
Robin van Spaandonk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In
reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sat, 26 Aug 2006
16:15:49
-0500:
Hi,
[snip]
I think both are correct. I have
no doubt that jewelers do try to
keep their clocks showing the same time.
However I think that a
degree of self-synchronization also occurs, for
the reason stated
in my previous email, particularly for clocks that have
a heavy
movement and consequent strong vibrations.
>Huygens
(in the 1600's) noticed pendulum clocks mounted on the same wall
>were
synchronised. Do you think someone was pulling his leg when he
enquired
>about?!
>
>Harry
>
>
>Christopher
Arnold wrote:
>
>Gents, I cannot take this - any longer.
>
>
>
>Being a Jeweler who builds new technology particle
accelerators and makes
>his own diamonds - I must correct the nonsense
of clock group self
>synchronization or CGSS. Most jewelers like all
their clocks showing the
>same time, resetting them as often as
needed, when they are not busy selling
>diamonds. Why - who will buy
the clocks that don't have the same time as the
>majority. This is the
same thing as the majority rejecting ideas that do not
>conform with
their own empirical wisdom, so those that chirp the same tune
>are
accepted and clocks that all have the same time MUST be accurate
and
>exactly correct all the time - which provides the appearance of
CGSS.
Regards,
Robin van
Spaandonk
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