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		app4soft on Jan 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 10,000 Year Clock After reading this article I still don't understand it's mechanism. Just got free PDF from it's "Prototype1" webpage[0] for dive deeply in its mechanics... [0] http://longnow.org/clock/prototype1

mtreis86 on Jan 23, 2018 [–]

I scanned through the PDF and it looks like the main mechanisms are torsion pendulums. I am assuming that's what the two towers with weights are.

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