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 | |
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 | |
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 |