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A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999
The Viennese Clock Museum is housed in the Harfenhaus (Harpist's House), one of the oldest homes in Vienna. With around 1,000 clocks in all, there is much to see, from ornate pocket watches, to a... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan
World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves
In 1916, Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was published. Included in the bizarre picture that the famed physicist painted of the universe were the notions that energy and mass were... »
Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science | Edited by Trevor and Dylan
Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls
The real measure of a telescope's power is not how greatly it can magnify a distant object, but what portion of that object's light the instrument actually collects.
It's easy if you think of... »
Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor and wythe
Current Docking of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic Ocean Liner
With the highest sustained top speed of 35 knots, the SS United States is the worlds fastest ocean liner.
Launched in 1952, it's maiden voyage set the record for the fastest transatlantic trip... »
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Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics
At the end of the 1800s, the University of Southern California sought to build the world's largest telescope. In preparation, two 42-inch "blank" disks were cast by the Parisian glassmaking... »
Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by Trevor
Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, possibly the longest running science experiment known
Despite many attempts, and many claims, of having built a perpetual motion machine, (see Steorn's recent Orbo device) no one has, for one very simple reason. They are impossible.
Not... »
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Large spinning bath of liquid mercury used to probe the early universe
With a six-meter diameter and weighing in at three metric tons, the Large Zenith Telescope is the third-largest optical telescope in North America and the largest liquid mirror telescope in the... »
Inspired Inventions, Instruments of Science, Optical Oddities | Edited by Trevor
