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@hamletfisherman5740

5 жыл бұрын

How did you know, this is sorcery

@uruiamnot

5 жыл бұрын

What time is it there?

@sirwilliam51

5 жыл бұрын

That's got to be the most ingenious clock mechanism ever made. Some clockmaker must have stayed up for days to come up with that hour on a chain idea.

@purefoldnz3070

5 жыл бұрын

'You can't switch on a light like we do now.' You mean like a candle or a gas lamp? lol

@springinfialta106

5 жыл бұрын

Urwerk has watches based on a similar principle. But they're almost as expensive as that clock would be if you put it up for sale!

I was curious how it was changing the numerals, and that was an amazing solution that would never have occurred to me

@nigellovatt9982

5 жыл бұрын

It never occurred to me until the clock was turned round. An incredible piece of engineering.

@rickc2102

5 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@uts4448

5 жыл бұрын

Ascdren yes and also the fact that it says it was made around 1675 amazes me too. This genius invention was made waaaaay back then?

@yushatak

5 жыл бұрын

That's my favorite thing about old tech, especially mechanical stuff - they had to come up with all kinds of clever ways to do things which we'd use a chip or a computer for now in almost every instance.

@nicksGLI

5 жыл бұрын

All analog clocks should show time like that! It's so much easier. Only displays needed information.

The Night Clock: Now you'll know the exact time your house burns down in the middle of the night!

@monkeygraborange

5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHA... I thought the same thing!

@kathrynblodgett1969

5 жыл бұрын

Except the clock is the first thing burning, so all that soft brass will melt long before the house burns down.

@Madfattdeeb

5 жыл бұрын

It's a new Stephen King book. 😂

@Broockle

5 жыл бұрын

I recommend LEDs

@trojanette8345

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. See my comment above. One can only truly understand this video by reading both (your and my) comment. My thoughts EXACTLY. Your comment is definitely worth an Emmy!!

I like the way the numbers remind me of the Moon rising, getting brighter, and then setting growing dimmer.

I wanted to know how they displayed the hours. Utterly genius. I'd have never guessed, and I'm a mechanical engineer.

My daughter is obsessed with watches and clocks, stopped playing when she heard the subject matter, and was glued to my phone screen for almost the entire video. Quite a task for a(n almost) 5 year old. 👍😊 Well done.

@britishmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Just in case you need some more clock-based entertainment for you daughter, we've put together a playlist of all our films about clocks kzread.info/head/PL0LQM0SAx600xVMIZO9L6zXTP_-K8rcDC There will be more in the future!

@kme

5 жыл бұрын

@@britishmuseum she's absolutely thrilled! Thank you so much. 😀

@maunster3414

5 жыл бұрын

KM E, that's lovely to hear about your daughter. An inquisitive mind is something to grow upon.

@The_Gallowglass

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe she'll make custom time pieces and stuff.

@yordlejay6820

5 жыл бұрын

Should get her a busted one and see if she can't learn to repair it

Thank you so much for opening it up and showing how the mechanism worked. I was very curious about that, and it's such a simple but elegant solution. I love it.

@buddyboy4x44

Жыл бұрын

The simplicity of the hour change is absolutely brilliant.

This clock is very cool, except for its tendency to, you know, burn down the house. I’ll bet wristwatches with tiny oil lamps in them were even more problematic.

@D-Vinko

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. You joke, but maybe we just haven't found the example in archeology yet? With what people create, id not be surprised at this point.

@kzookid2051

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. You just turn your head and spit on the flame.

@clickrick

Жыл бұрын

Wristwatches would have been fine, because they were out in the open air, so the fumes would be able to dissipate. The problem with them was more to do with how to get that lump of lead to hang nicely without continually bashing the wearer's leg. Pocket watches, on the other hand, would have built up uncomfortable heat close against the person, and the fumes would have built up to the point that the flame would have gone out. ;-)

@abaidullah9104

Жыл бұрын

there werent any wistwatches back in that age

@lindac6919

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. The housewife in those days spent a LOT of time making sure no candles or flames were burning, before they went to bed.

I have many a happy memory of the British Museum! When you go to a museum and ask for the short tour and the staff tell you go to the Rosetta Stone and turn right ... you know that you are in a special place. Also, the food is fantastic.

@betsybarnicle8016

4 жыл бұрын

@Whited Out The Rosetta Stone. Also, a HUGE collection of Egyptian artifacts amd mummies.

I love how he looks so excited, a true geek!

@HellHammerOfDoom

7 жыл бұрын

Same here, it's good to see such passion.

@Madfattdeeb

5 жыл бұрын

He was so adorably geeky my wife found it cute. No wonder she likes me... mystery solved.😂

@ChavvyChannel

4 жыл бұрын

his looks and personality stikes me as a nick frost character

@asdf9890

3 жыл бұрын

Do they call themselves horologists? If so, that would raise some eyebrows of those who are ignorant of it.

What an amazing piece of original tech. It's refreshing to think about how someone arrived at the design and finally put it together all those years ago. Gone are the days. Thanks for sharing.

This was even more fascinating than I expected it to be. Thank you.

I'm weird. I found this video more enjoyable than any show that is currently on the tube. Mr Cooke is awesome.

Oh, the horology, the horology!

Just yesterday I was asking myself why I love clocks so much. I have several, some working, most broken, and those are right twice a day. Anyway, the answer I came up with was this: we don't even rightly know what time is, and how it works. It goes slow if you are bored or near a huge gravitational object. It makes all things soft, and without time, there'd be no movement. In short, it's one of the great mysteries and it's everywhere and it's hard if at all possible to imagine. And yet, here are machines that can measure it! As complicated and ingenious as befits the matter, as beautiful as machines can be. This one glows as well. Love it!

I have to say, the way it changes the number IS ingenius.

Such a clever mechanism, people were absolutely not supid back then!

@curbmassa

5 жыл бұрын

No, not like they are now. Amazing how much was figured out hundreds of years ago allowing modern "marvels" to even exist.

@topramenraymond7005

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly and everything LASTED a very long time. Now and days a lot of things we buy (cheap ass China made) break down easily or does not last very long to get us to buy and buy again.

@rayminazzi2065

5 жыл бұрын

@@topramenraymond7005 survivorship bias, if everything made back "when everything was made better" we'd still have most of it around today and it wouldn't be rare, some things made today will be in perfect working order hundreds of years from now. Things made poorly today and of yesteryear won't last.

@topramenraymond7005

5 жыл бұрын

@@rayminazzi2065 just like a cure for cancer we've always had and people who have cured themselves and others but FDA didnt approve.....wonder why

@rayminazzi2065

5 жыл бұрын

@@topramenraymond7005 I don't think I understand what you mean by that.

I worked in London for a week and only had one free day. I spent all of it at the British Museum, and a third of that time was in Clocks and Watches. A wonderful department full of beautiful and intriguing things.

Ah , the British museum , I've spent days wandering around that magnificent building. Great video 👍🇬🇧

@ruckboger

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully, you had a place to sleep.

That's amazing! I love things that light up. My favourite clock I own is a Westclox Moon Beam reproduction. It has a lit up dial face, and a light along the side that begins flashing ten minutes before the alarm goes off, for a "gentle wake up." I didn't think it would really work, but it does. The flashes wake you up long before the alarm goes off.

I love the changing numeral mechanism! I had a much more complicated theory, but the cleverness of the reality amazed me.

A number of years ago I visited the British Museum and saw a unique clock on display. The clock had a rectangular metal plate with a serpentine groove cut into it. The plate was capable of tilting around an axis orthogonal to the serpentine groove. A steel ball ran along the serpentine groove until it hit a trigger at the end of the groove . Striking the trigger caused the plate to tilt in the opposite direction and the ball traversed the serpentine until it struck a similar trigger at the other end and the plate tilted again. What a marvel ! I saw this timepiece about fifty years ago. Other than the person who took me to the Museum, It is my sole recollection of my visit to the United Kingdom. If you are contemplating other You Tube videos, I would most enthusiastically propose this as the subject.

@CricketsBay

4 жыл бұрын

There's amateur video of that clock (somebody recorded their trip to the museum). m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/oaeLx82GiN3Kg9Y.html

Thank you for this. From one 17th century metal-botherer to another, I loved this. A truly wonderful clockwork contrivance. Compliments of the season from me (and all the mice in the workshop) 🔨🐭🐭🐭

@geoculus5606

Жыл бұрын

Have you been annoying the metals again? ;)

What a neat clock. I would have loved to see the movement too. Hard to believe people were making such precision timepieces 400 years ago.

I love that Clock! The Wondering Dial is amazing!

@aeromodeller1

5 жыл бұрын

Wandering Hour. watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/07/watchismo-times_20.html

I can only imagine the marketing "You can tell the time all night long now!"

How very, very, very clever they were in the 17th century. Thanks for the fascinating (and illuminating!) video.

That was short and fascinating. I had never heard of 'night clocks' before, so hadn't considered your first question before. The mechanism shown is nothing short of genius.

This Night Clock was cutting-edge technology in its day (1675): the pendulum clock had only been invented in 1656, and the long case (grandfather) clock in 1670.

The solution to the changing numerals blew by mind. True ingenuity, makes me wonder out of what necessity it was created.

Night Clock production must be resumed at all costs. Cheers!

This dude’s just so fucking hyped about clocks, and that makes me so fucking hyped about clocks. Tick on, you fantastic being.

My now deceased papaw owned and operated a jewelry store for 50-60 years. He mostly built and repaired watches, but he also did engraving and made jewelry such as rings and necklaces.

I want to make a modern replica of this ingenious design. Gorgeous!

We have 3 grandfarther, one vienna, one grandmother, one westminster mantle and one servent clock. But I've never seen a Night Clock before - fascinating!

I can´t believe I haven´t noticed this channel until now. Fascinating stuff.

I'm curious as to how they secured the oil lamp in the mechanism.

@reachandler3655

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering that too.

What a wonderful clock, love the mechanism!

I've repaired and collected various clocks with brass works, 8 day, mantle, cuckoo etc but I've never heard of nor seen one of these! Wonderful, fascinating video subject.

Yes....quite right you are on this one (about the nighttime illuminated) clock. I have had not 1 but 2 centenarians in my family during my lifetime. I distinctly remember asking one of them about knowing the time at night. To which the response was, "Well we use a light". My former 8 yr old self then said: "Oh you mean like a flashlight". My relative then said: "Flashlight......what do you mean a flashlight.? No those weren't invented, yet. We didn't use a flashlight. We used a candle". I didn't know what to say. However, trust me. My 'deer-in-the-headlights' expression would have been brown box (early Kodak) camera worthy. LoL everybody !!

This is absolutely breathtaking! More of these please!

@theurbangentry

7 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here! I hope this finds you well, Best regards, TGV

@RoelfvanderMerwe

7 жыл бұрын

The Urban Gentry Hey buddy! You should make a video about this!

That is the most frustrating display and it's gorgeous.

This was fascinating, thank you for sharing it!!!

I am an USA horologist, very interesting videos. That is a unique night clock dial. The "wandering number" design I think you said? That mechanism design is really ingenious to have the staggered numeral indicators that are synchronized just right to follow one another properly. I'm always amazed at some of the impressive mechanisms inventions that clockmakers came up with in the old days. I was designing a clock to build that a feature was that it would have a nighttime lighting ability, but was going to have my entire clock dial backlit with LED lighting, and solar powered battery cell to power it. But now I have gotten some other ideas for interesting designs after seeing this old one. I've worked on some "blindman's clock"'s which functions differently but still resolves the night presentation issue. The clock has a gong for the hour strike and a bell for the quarterly marks, and it rings one bell at first quarter and two at half hour and three at three-quarter hour and then repeats the hour gong number after each quarterly bell. I don't see too many of these very often anymore,they tend to be made around late 1800s into early 1900s.

That really is an ingenious and elegant solution to that requirement. I'm not sure I would have ever thought of it. Very neat.

C. Paillard & Co., the Swiss company famous for the quality of its music boxes, and later known for their 16mm cameras, once made a Stirling engine powered gramophone. Its construction made it very unlikely that the wooden enclosure would catch fire, but I would imagine some people were rather wary of leaving one going unattended.

Absolutely fascinating

Amazing! I love these types of innovations

I enjoy the delightful enthusiasm of Mr Cooke with his clocks. Should I ever get back to London, his gallery 39 is on my list. Night clocks…will we ever stop innovating?

What a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing it.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece of history and ingenuity with us!

Absolutely amazing. Thank you

So many beautiful old clocks! Fascinating system in that one.

Fantastic thank you! So happy to find this on KZread, I lived in London for a year and miss all the museums dearly. I'd even watch a video of you walking through the galleries talking about this and that! Subscribed immediately.

I'm glad this came up as a suggestion... I love seeing how things work and that definitely is, like you said, ingenious.

I would have been broken hearted if he hadn't explained how the numbers changed. Brilliant genius inventor.

Fantastic video. Thanks for posting.

Wonderful programme. Great way to spread knowledge.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

I must admit that i misread the titles and got excited for a second

I love wandering hour movements, this one is so cool! Thanks

Thank you Ollie great information,pure genius.from the USA. 😁

Brilliant stuff Fascinating

perfect craftmanship

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the great explanations.

clear, concise presentation -- thank you!

That is so cool!! Thanks for sharing!

That’s bloody brilliant!

Great work of art and a mechanical marvel.

Beautiful 💖. Thank you.

Wow ingenious indeed! What an interesting clock! Thanks for going through the trouble of taking it apart and sharing!

What a great invention. My absolute favorite thing about it is the numerals on the chain. Genius.

So interesting! Thank you.

Very cool. Thank you for sharing this.

Amazing mechanism, thanks for sharing this !

I love seeing how mechanical things operate and I could not conceive of how this was done till you took the face off. Utterly ingenious solution.

That's absolutely brilliant!!!!

Fantastic!

The first digital clock. Yes, I did think they were a reflectively recent development. I'm in Australia and this is brilliant. To see this stuff close up is just great. Thanks for the channel and all the submissions.

So cleverly designed. What an amazing job that of a clock curator.

Amazing insight - will see this in my next visit....

Brilliant!

Interesting, thank you. The bit about the numbers changing was wonderful.

I think that is the coolest thing I have ever seen. So intricate for its times. Wow. Just amazing. Beautiful clock.

Thank you so much for sharing this!!

This guy is the Clock King!

That is a really cool clock. Thanks for sharing.

That is so cool. I love it!

Very fascinating.

Beautifully ingenious

That's amazing. Thanks for showing us how it worked!

very interesting, had never heard of this type of clock before..super

Wow. Thanks for this. That is amazing

Amazing!

Fascinating. I've never seen anything like it.

Thank you very much Oliver , that was absolutely amazing . Iv'e always wondered how they worked.

Many many thanks for the wonderful video. Jim from AUSTRALIA.

Beautiful! Never seen the wandering hour mechanism, it's lovely!

@sillynacannada6718

5 жыл бұрын

psammiad Oh “Hour”, I thought he said “Owl”, as in night owl! 😆 I do marvel at the beauty and ingenuity. It’s amazing the accomplishments before the industrial revolution.

Classy as it gets

Clocks hold a special place in mechanical engineering hearts, ever interesting and certainly symbolic devices. Small innovations in every iteration taking advantage of physics, gearing, and, of course, timing. The switching of the digits of it was particularly interesting if only briefly highlighted here.