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34681
I wasn't really able to look at most of this. http://www.howstuffworks.com/animated-tattoo.htm/printable Once again, technology comes to the rescue. M Kinsler ...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 1, 2006
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34682
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:51:17 -0500, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... COSMOS? I think that was an RCA tradename for CMOS. It was probably the 1802,...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2006
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34683
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:15:43 -0500, Stephen C. Paine <spaine@...> wrote: (Quoted in full) ... {end quote} I did permanently delete something I knew I...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2006
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34684
... Technology came to my rescue, too - the technology of the calendar. Blood supply to the skin would be a major issue, I think. John Tinker...
John Tinker
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Apr 1, 2006
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34685
I'll keep it brief. The comparison doesn't exactly fit, because the older publication was more extreme. However, I recently realized with some surprise that...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2006
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34686
<http://www.watchbuys.com/images/JESkeletonGoldF.jpg> <http://www.watchbuys.com/images/JESkeletonGoldB.jpg> Note the uncut rim of the balance wheel; modern...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2006
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34687
I should have waited a bit longer. The front view looks strange if you examine it closely. Betcha Mark spots it pretty quickly. -- Nicholas Bodley /*|*\...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2006
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34688
<http://www.watchbuys.com/images/JSSingleWhite.jpg> I'll try not to post any more! This one is interesting. Before clocks were accurate enough to justify...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2006
9:11 pm
34689
... Not only doesn't it 'exactly' fit, it doesn't fit at all. For all that its editorial staff is quite conservative, Fox is not a political news service, and...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 1, 2006
10:40 pm
34690
... I kinda liked the old bimetal ones. God only knows how they got those right. ... Well, it wouldn't have hurt if they'd restrained themselves with that...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 1, 2006
10:47 pm
34691
Nice one; I've never seen a modern perspective view. It's a decoration at <http://www.cosc.ch/methode2.php?lang=en> What seems rare about this is that you see...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2006
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34692
... Medical issues aside, consider basic visibility. Human skin isn't transparent. You'd never see anything but a few lumps under the skin. - murr -...
murr rhame
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34693
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:47:29 -0500, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... I used to have Louis and Samuel (<--iirc) Levin's book about watchmaking. Back...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 2, 2006
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34694
... Outside of the fact that it's awfully tough to tell time with, it looks reasonable. I have presumably missed something glaring. M Kinsler...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 2, 2006
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34695
... I rather like this one. It suits my basic sense of punctuality, the attitude toward which is not improving. I would be surprised, however, if the...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 2, 2006
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34696
... Yup. A lot of them had a helical mainspring. I'm not certain what the big advantage was, and there may not have been much. ... Yep. This is what is...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 2, 2006
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34697
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Apr 2, 2006
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34698
... That doesn't make any sense to me. You might later be of the opinion that Bush was right. But there ain't no possible way you would ever "find out" that he...
John Tinker
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Apr 2, 2006
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34699
... Maybe there's a back-light. M Kinsler plutonium-powered...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 2, 2006
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34700
... That would be charming. A lump under the skin that moves....
Joel Ph_elps
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Apr 2, 2006
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34701
... Maybe it looks better in person, and not magnified. ... Problem with that is that when you sit down to be innovative, you realize how splendid the two-hand...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 2, 2006
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34702
... I know of a Revolutionary War era clock which was built with only one hand. Hand made shortly before the Redcoats burned the shop....
Joel Ph_elps
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Apr 2, 2006
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34703
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:57:06 -0500, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... Well, I didn't notice it for a good number of seconds. It's very much a ...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 2, 2006
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34704
I assume that if you sign up for this, you get to sit at your machine and post messages like this one. Does .in = India? Poor guy. He's gone. M Kinsler...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 2, 2006
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34705
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:01:34 -0500, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... Agreed. One of the single-hand watches has what looks like the "hub" of a hand...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 2, 2006
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34706
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:15:35 -0500, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... To the extent that I know (not a great deal), all had helical hairsprings. (I know...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 2, 2006
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34707
... I can't be quite that conclusive just yet. I suppose I may just be trying to be optimistic about something I can't help, but history isn't quite done with...
Mark Kinsler
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Apr 2, 2006
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34708
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:15:37 -0500, John Tinker <editor@...> ... Francis Fukuyama has some interesting things to say. ... *Please* read, okay? -- ...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 2, 2006
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34709
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:19:52 -0500, Mark Kinsler <kinsler33@...> ... IIrc, there is. Scheme is crazy. -- Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. Fox News...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 2, 2006
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34710
... wrote: I think that it was the 1802, and I think it was called the COSMAC. IIRC, there was an operating system called the COSMAC ELF that was held in...
David Kazdan
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