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Re: Marine chronometer by Gould
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2007 Nov 06, 16:49 -0700
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2007 Nov 06, 16:49 -0700
On 6 Nov 2007 at 23:07, George Huxtable wrote: > He includes lots of diagrams of these motions, drawn simply and clearly. > But to be honest, I found some of the explanations rather hard going. It's > a field in which animated diagrams would help a lot, and perhaps someone > has produced them. Here is a site with animated escapements, including the Grasshopper and Chronometer escapements (but not the verge, a modified version of which was used in H4, though that one is easy enough to understand without animation). http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/3934/escapement.html Ken Muldrew. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
