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kleinbl00  ·  2192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 14, 2018

Hung out with the guy who restored Maillardet's Automaton. 127 linear feet of programming, XYZ plotting, capable of reproducing details less than a mm across.

In 1790.

He showed me an unsigned vienna grande sonnerie movement that's probably 270 years old. It still works. It has a fusee chain that would be dwarfed by angel hair pasta.

Somebody made that. By lamplight. With nothing more technologically sophisticated than an archimedes drill.

Me? I spent 45 minutes turning a larger Delrin cylinder into a smaller Delrin cylinder on a shitty Taiwanese lathe. Having a hard time being enthusiastic about my education at the moment.