[time-nuts] Seriously vintage time nut

Bill Hawkins bill at iaxs.net
Tue Aug 12 00:42:16 EDT 2008


Looks like a straight 8 gas engine on the stand. Hard to tell scaling
from the hand. The hand looks graceful, like a woman's hand.

So, why is the big vibrating apparatus not level? Looks like it has a
granite block supported by four flat springs inside the box.

Sure is nice to be reminded of the early days of technology when most
of this list is about bleeding edge stuff.

Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
From: David Forbes
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:06 PM

Here's a fellow using a BIG tuning fork frequency standard in 1929 for
some industrial data acquisition system using 16mm movie film as the
medium...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4218?size=_original

Then feel free to look at all the photos on the site - they're
fascinating.
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