Sentences with phrase «of mechanical clocks»

«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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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

The behavior of the clock is to be explained in detail by the mechanical forces operating among its parts.

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

These clocks could eventually lead to chemical computation — after all, some of the first mechanical computers were simply sophisticated clocks.

The clock's mechanical parts left its accuracy at the mercy of shifting temperatures, pressures and even Earth's gravitational pull, since pendulums swing faster at lower altitudes and at Earth's poles.

«These clocks were significant, not only because they were masterpieces of mechanical ingenuity, but also because they altered the public's perception of time.»

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).

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.»

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

Their simple site offers a brief, concise and thoroughly riveting history of timekeeping, from the days when celestial bodies acted as our clocks, through sundials, mechanical and quartz timepieces, right up to the establishment of time zones (Finally: the guiding principle behind the Prime Meridian!)

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.

«This study tells us that the opioid epidemic has made people sicker and killed more people, in spite of all the care we can provide in the ICU, including mechanical ventilation, acute dialysis, life support and round - the - clock care,» said the study's lead author, Jennifer P. Stevens, MD, associate director of the medical intensive care unit at BIDMC and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The technique behind the new clock could be used to replace the standard kilogram with a new, quantum mechanical definition of the mass unit.

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.

Base specification cars had a digital clock in place of the SID and a non-digital instrument panel with a mechanical odometer (as opposed to the digital odometer on higher spec models).

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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!

The huge clock set the rhythm of their lives, and like condemned men watching the executioner's clock, they clung to its mechanical beat as if it were the beat of life itself.

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.

NOMA unveils Automaton Clock, Re-opens Beloved Decorative Arts Galleries NEW ORLEANS, LA — The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)'s automaton musical clock would have been viewed as a mechanical wonder when it was made in London around 1800, and it still charms today as the centerpiece of a new installaClock, Re-opens Beloved Decorative Arts Galleries NEW ORLEANS, LA — The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)'s automaton musical clock would have been viewed as a mechanical wonder when it was made in London around 1800, and it still charms today as the centerpiece of a new installaclock would have been viewed as a mechanical wonder when it was made in London around 1800, and it still charms today as the centerpiece of a new installation.

Buttressing the whole composition is the beat, beat, beat of the clock — digital, analog, mechanical (even a sundial!)

On view through October 8, 2017, Automaton Musical Clock: A Mechanical Marvel marks a time of celebration for NOMA, as the museum reopens its Lupin Foundation Decorative Arts Center.

His large - scale, wall - mounted flip clocks, for example, emphasise the passing of time with their amplified sound as well as the impossibility of its mechanical quantification.

«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.

One of them is connected to a mechanism which regulates mechanical energy delivered to the pendulum depending on the position of the pendulum — an escapement mechanism in a grandfather clock.