Yesterday, I returned to Cambridge to my favorite B&B and this morning Nigel told me about THAT clock! It is known as the Corpus Clock and a man named John C. Taylor invested five years and £1 million to construct the Corpus Clock (after Corpus Christi College where John Taylor studied) and the chronophage. It uses a principle which Harrison developed about 300 years ago when he devised a way to measure longitude. The mechanism of the clock goes back to 1725 and John Harrison's Grasshopper Escapement and shows time in a new and unique manner.
To learn more about it, go to YouTube and see it functioning. I do urge you to go to the site below and watch it as it is VERY INTERESTING!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cCqGtvTA36k
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