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John T
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Galileo Galilei

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This is my attempt to duplicate what Galileo had in his head.  Since this is the first pendulum clock conceived I wanted to see how well it would run.  Answer - great

Galileo's escapement is a design for a clock escapement, invented around 1637 by Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642). It was the earliest design of a pendulum clock. Since he was blind, Galileo described the device to his son, who drew a sketch of it. The son began construction of a prototype, but both he and Galileo died before it was completed.

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John:

  Excellent. Its always nice when they start to tick isnt it?

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This design is so robust that I was able to dress it up as a Scarecrow - take it to our farmers market - roughly level it and then have it run for the day.  People loved it!

The version I have done was all done in gearotic

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:) Fantastic.

  I love seeing things like that at a fair.

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Nicely done John, congratz..
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