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These are some of The Foundations ideas for the display of the Clock prototype including some images of Danny Hillis' Binary Mechanical Adder.

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54Kb These are early pictures of the four foot tall Adder/Intercallator 'mill' or 'brain' of the Clock. This prototype is built out of monel, brass, and stainless steel. 5/11/99
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32Kb These are images are different views of the Adder/Intercallator pic 3D computer model. 6/26/98

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78Kb This small Acrobat diagram shows the different parts of the clock face we are using in the first prototype. 12/28/98
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20Kb These are Danny's non-concentric face sketches 7/22/97
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20Kb These are some of clock face sketches by Alexander Rose 7/22/97

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17Kb This is the ten thousand year cam that keeps track of the 'equation of time' which adjusts solar time to actual time by about plus or minus pic 1pic 5 min./year. 4/29/99

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