Sentences with phrase «mechanical clock»

A two - year warranty ensures you're getting a quality product along with those neat details that make it easier to use and maintain than traditional mechanical clocks.

I can't wait to check out that tomb with that giant mechanical clock thing!

«It was not until the fourteenth century that an hour of uniform length became customary due to the invention of mechanical clocks,» Beard writes with several coauthors in a recent review of the leap - second debate.

Damjan Stanković, user - experience designer at LinkedIn, is currently in the prototyping phases of his modern, electro - mechanical clock with a liquid display, Rhei.

Long before the Council of Trent, mechanical clocks began to turn into household items.

In any of those famous places, or in any big and small place in Christian Europe, things went on because they were regulated by mechanical clocks.

What is more, they invented gunpowder, paper and printing and the first mechanical clock.

The mechanism in mechanical watches and clocks that transfers energy to the timekeeping element and allows for the counting of oscillations is known as the «escapement»; this key invention, developed in the 13th century, is what made all - mechanical clocks even possible.

1200s through 1920s Mechanical clocks Mechanism: Balance wheels, weights, or pendulums Error: From 2 hours per day in the 1200s to 1 second per year (1921) Accurate enough to: Coordinate military activities and standardize trains

Robert Cailliau writes that «the clock widget on my computer screen has a second hand that vibrates slightly after each tick, mimicking a defect of cheap mechanical clocks.»

From there it wasn't a huge technological step to the purely mechanical clock, prodded in large part by the twin developments of the Industrial Revolution (factory workers needed to show up on time) and the railroad (it would be nice if 10 o'clock in London meant the same thing everywhere in England).

Finished in ivory over black and one of very few made with Hooper rear windows, this splendid touring limousine will form part of the Course Director's entourage giving invited guests an opportunity to experience the marque's legendary «magic carpet ride» for themselves, in period luxury, if only marginally disturbed by the ticking of the original mechanical clock!

Wells Cathedral is one of the best examples of early English Architecture, the front features over three hundred statues and carvings, and one of the oldest working mechanical clocks.

They even abolished mechanical clocks after leading the world in clock construction technology.

And we can't forget Chinese monk and mathematician I - Hsing for creating the first mechanical clock.

This piece of music describes the mechanical clock Háry János claimed to have heard at the Austrian emperor's palace.

But perhaps the most astounding invention was that of the escapement — the soul of the mechanical clock — displayed in all its glory in 11th - century China.

He compares the process of discovery to that of someone encountering a mechanical clock for the first time.

Its flagship project is a mechanical clock, buried deep inside a mountain in Texas, that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

A small group of futurists and engineers have begun building a mechanical clock meant to tick through 1,000 decades

For example, while nearly every mechanical clock made in the last millennium consists of a series of propelled gears, this one uses a stack of mechanical binary computers capable of singling out one moment in 3.65 million days.

Still, no mechanical clock, however cleverly crafted, can keep perfect time for 10,000 years.

But at facilities in California and Seattle, a small group of futurists and engineers have begun building a mechanical clock meant to tick through 1,000 decades.

I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes.

«Periodic» is often used to describe systems that have two reactive (where the response is out of phase with the forcing) components; inductor and capacitor in electronics, mass and spring in mechanical clocks, chemical bond and atomic mass in greenhouse gases, gas density and compressibility in sound.

Comparing us to factory farmed animals, he suggests that: We're bending our body's biological clock to fit a schedule dictated by a mechanical clock on the wall, and we're the only creatures on the planet to do so.

Much like the sophisticated inner workings of a mechanical clock, family members operate as a whole.