Monday, 15. September 2008
Topic: ART - on September 15, 2008 at 10:30:00 AM CEST
Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time
Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker. # What makes nature's clocks tick? # Clock from 1776 just goes on and on # World's most accurate clock unveiled
One clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude, took 36 years to build and he was still calibrating it when he died at his home in London on March 24, 1776, his 83rd birthday.
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