"The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building.
It will be unveiled on 19 September by Prof Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the global bestseller, A Brief History of Time.
The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honour John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement.
The clock has been designed by the inventor and horologist Dr John Taylor and makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from the inside of the clock to the outside and refashioning it as a Chronophage, or time-eater, which literally devours time." - Chronophage
Apparently it's stopped several times already...
Wednesday 22 October 2008
The Corpus Clock
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Thats flippin awesome! But your pictures arn't working, kitteh.
what do you mean? the video? the moving-pictures?
The pic of the Corpus clock. At least thats what im assuming it is, since i cannot see it! Can you? Maybe its my lame work internet...
it's a youtube video and it's working fine on mine... your stupid work comp i reckon.
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