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Challenge: Puzzle Macro (Basic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ30
Location: Delray Beach, FL
Date: Jun 15, 2007
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/8 sec
Galleries: Macro, History
Date Uploaded: Jun 16, 2007

 This is part of the workings of an antique tall case clock. The works were built circa 1740 by the renowned English clockmaker, George Graham. It is a month regulator, meaning it runs for a month between windings and is designed for accuracy. This type of clock was created for scientific use -- for the precise measurement of time down to the second. It still keeps accurate time, but of course, not to the degree of our current capabilities.

Originally, the weight was suspended on cat gut, but that was replaced about 25 years ago by the cable shown above.


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 06/28/2007 11:43:00 AM
A fascinating image to me - but I'm a geeky engineer type. Still I think it's well done, and I love the story that goes with it!
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 06/27/2007 02:06:06 PM
I never would have guessed. It looks like some big giant pulley out of some factory! Good job!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/26/2007 02:58:19 PM
Winch?
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 06/25/2007 06:57:48 PM
clock??
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 06/25/2007 06:29:48 PM
It seems that the cable is the subject of the image but it's out of focus.
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 06/25/2007 09:11:36 AM
good use of dof
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 06/25/2007 06:22:05 AM
a winch of some sort 7
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 06/24/2007 11:37:25 AM
pully
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 06/23/2007 01:00:51 PM
no idea!
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 06/23/2007 11:00:40 AM
a bell pulley?
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 06/22/2007 07:18:42 PM
A wire rope pulley
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 06/22/2007 05:11:21 AM
a clock.
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 06/22/2007 02:37:59 AM
hey, I know what that is! It is a Williams guide spool out of a left handed Shproxburg black light bulb remover. Looks like an older model though, before they started using the Mason upgrades.
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 06/21/2007 10:27:58 PM
clock parts??
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 06/21/2007 04:10:46 PM
the hidden workings of an old elevator in a remodeled historic building?
 06/21/2007 02:49:55 PM
The wind up part on a turboencabulator?
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 06/21/2007 01:27:42 PM
WINCH?
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 06/21/2007 11:42:30 AM
Workings of a clock?
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 06/21/2007 08:40:21 AM
steel line on a spool?
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 06/21/2007 08:26:23 AM
have no idea...but it's interesting
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 06/21/2007 03:04:51 AM
the inner working of either a clock or a piano
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 06/20/2007 06:33:59 AM
It's a winch of some type, maybe on a boat. Not sure this is enough of a "puzzle" for this challenge. Good lighting, seems a bit grainy/fuzzy.
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 06/20/2007 02:25:16 AM
Nice warm tones. Winch on something mechanical. Dont find it interesting enough to know more.
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