Free-sprung Episode 16 https://offhours.show/podcast-player/972/ep16.mp3The simplest solution is often the best solution. Jon and Chris touch on the history of timekeeping and then dive into a discuss about the variables that play into precision, mechanical timekeeping. Samrat Yantra A massive equinoctial sundial in Jaipur, Indiajantarmantar.org Dolphin Dial Jon’s favourite example of a sundial, located in Greenwich, Englandrmg.co.uk Wadokei A wadokei wristwatch created by Japanese watchmaker, Masahiro Kikuno, wherein the length of the hours change according to the time of yearyoutube.com Christiaan Huygens Inventor of the pendulum clock & early, portable timepieces that employed hairsprings & balance wheels as their regulatorsen.wikipedia.org Robert Hooke In addition to Huygens, Hooke is also credited with bringing hairsprings to the craft of watchmakingen.wikipedia.org Charles Édouard Guillaume Invented several alloys that are effectively impervious to changes in temperature, dubbed invar & elinvaren.wikipedia.org Abraham-Louis Breguet Creator of the Breguet Overcoil, a form of hairspring that helped to mitigate positional error & improve the performance of mechanical watchesen.wikipedia.org
