Keats has led workshops since the fall of 2021 to teach people how to use hand-made materials to chronicle flow rates. Now he’s hoping to bring the river clock from thought experiment into reality. “I’m envisioning a clock that is run by a mechanical system, run on a pen...
Metals expand when the temperature rises. What effect would this have on the accuracy of a clock whose pendulum is suspended by a metal wire or rod? Explain why a brass tumbler feels much colder than a wooden tray on a chilly day. ...
Try to avoid the gears that make the chain cross over at an extreme angle. These "criss-cross" gears are bad for the chain and sprockets. Especially bad is to combine the inside (small) front sprocket with the outside (small) rear sprocket. This noisy, inefficient gear causes the chain ...