Clocks and watches are among the most amazing of purely mechanical human inventions. I've always had a fascination with the incredible intricacies and and amazing accuracy of watches. They are also beautiful objects to look at and open up, marvel at the skill needed to make all those precise little cogs and wheels and watch how it all works in unison so perfectly. I would LOVE to be able to take some classes and learn how to make such beautiful objects. But I assume it would take many years of painstaking training and a heck of a lot of money.
3:03 The craftsmanship of that medal just blows my mind! Each letter has been carved into a once blank medal by hand. A single mistake could have ruined days of work. Things like this medal are just amazing monuments to human ingenuity and determination in pursuit of knowlege, art, and a broader horizon in general.
Henry Joseph Drake was born 29th March 1858. The Lowestoft Journal reports that on the 9th August 1881 he married Clara Herring at Great Yarmouth. In 1901 (age 43) he was living and working at 72 Calverley Road Tunbridge Wells, Kent as an Optician, Jeweller and Watchmaker, with his wife Clara (39) and daughter Greta (4). By 1939 he has retired and lives at 54 Mereworth Road, Tunbridge Wells. Local newspapers reported both the couples Golden and Diamond wedding Anniversaries. He died on the 15th December 1945, and his wife in the following March.
Alan you forgot to mention the reason why there are three pendulums in sync. The idea is that their synchronized vibration will sympathetically influence the vibration of each individual pendulum, and therefore reduce the variations likely to influence a single pendulum due to the escapement or external sources. That's the theory, anyway but even if not effective, it all looks very attractive.
You're dead right about this. But Alan certainly is aware of this. I'm sure a lot of this chat ended up on the cutting room floor. And the sympathetic behaviour *is most certainly effective in this clock; for one thing, there is no other clock in the world suspended on steel guy lines - any other clock would quickly stop due to movement of the case induced by the induced movement of a single pendulum. The three pendulums mop up each others' waste energy so that very little is lost to the environment, and very little of the environment gets into their little microcosm.
This episode was great! I love old devices and the workmanship on these old clacks is magnificent. Those intricate parts former students had made were fantastically delicate and precise. It would be amazing to learn to make time pieces like this.
Well, hearing the word horological reminds me of the last (as of 2017) Pirates of the Caribbean movie where the girl says she's a horologist and Jack and crew think she's a 'lady of the evening'. :D
there's something brilliant about clockwork and clocks, both brilliant and somehow mysterious. I would love to visit this place. Or even better live in it with all those clocks...
Kosmos Horology Oops on me!!! Pardon me Viscount Midleton!! You know I made sure I spelled his last name right and I was going to Google him to see if he did have a title, but I didn't !!!
6:04 I'm a bit sceptical to this. There are less wear and tear in a quartz clock. A quartz clock should normaly work fine for many decades and if the movement fails you can replace it for a new one just as you might have to replace the mainspring or a gear in a clock.
Sorry Brady, couldn't handle it. As beautiful as clocks are and as much as a marvel as they are, I cannot abide the things. Just call me, Captain Hook.
When did the recording of this take place? I love you guys and during the summer i was completing a 7 week placement at the institute. I finished on the 28th of July. How did i not know about this?!!
Holy crap, "commemorate" is actually spelled wrong, unless this is one of those US/UK things. Please tell me this is a US/UK thing and that it's not actually been engraved incorrectly.
If I can just plug one of my favorite channels, Clickspring is run by an Australian amateur clockmaker and his videos on making mechanical clocks and other mechanisms are top notch, everyone should go check him out.
horology is one of those misleading words in English. You can get the "ology" part as "study of" but if you don't know what the "horo" part means, it can lead to misconceptions.
I couldn't stay there, the sound of clocks is like water torture to my ears 😯 After a short time the sound drives me nuts. I can't sleep in a room with mechanical clocks because my ears tune to them and I can't get the sound out of my head.
Am I the only one who spent the entire video desperately hoping for the surprise cameo appearance by Roger Waters after the clock chime intro? (He was very much missed in the Sixty Symbols "Far Side of the Moon" video as well, btw.)
He's wrong about the quartz clock. There are quartz clocks on the Voyager space probes, going for three decades without maintenance in the coldest parts of the solar system. The same technology keeps quartz watches going for decades too. Tell that to clock snobs when they look down on your cheap Casio. I do. Don't get me wrong. I admire the precision engineering of mechanical clocks, but quartz clocks are a marvel of early electrical engineering and integral to space exploration. I strongly dislike the ad antiquitatem argument. Mechanical is nicer. Quartz is better.
kentrel2. How much did that space clock cost? Your "nicer-better" line was value laden though you make a point about keeping a value out of the equation. Interesting. All arguments are provisional, and I didn't sense you disliked the historic, just wanted to keep it fair. Am I right?
Exactly so. Indeed despite what he says, your average cheap quartz watch, provided it is made with half decent components, is going to keep running much longer than this absolutely exquisite piece of engineering. But you wouldn`t bother trying to service it because you could just by another cheap watch (probably better still due to advance in technology). The difference is that the commemorative clock is so beautiful that to take that attitude with it would be a crime.
Thanks Braidy and institute. The work is impressive. The three pendulum clock did it for me.
Wonderful video Brady
+Clickspring more from the institute soon!
Clocks and watches are among the most amazing of purely mechanical human inventions. I've always had a fascination with the incredible intricacies and and amazing accuracy of watches. They are also beautiful objects to look at and open up, marvel at the skill needed to make all those precise little cogs and wheels and watch how it all works in unison so perfectly. I would LOVE to be able to take some classes and learn how to make such beautiful objects. But I assume it would take many years of painstaking training and a heck of a lot of money.
3:03 The craftsmanship of that medal just blows my mind!
Each letter has been carved into a once blank medal by hand.
A single mistake could have ruined days of work.
Things like this medal are just amazing monuments to human ingenuity and determination in pursuit of knowlege, art, and a broader horizon in general.
Henry Joseph Drake was born 29th March 1858. The Lowestoft Journal reports that on the 9th August 1881 he married Clara Herring at Great Yarmouth. In 1901 (age 43) he was living and working at 72 Calverley Road Tunbridge Wells, Kent as an Optician, Jeweller and Watchmaker, with his wife Clara (39) and daughter Greta (4). By 1939 he has retired and lives at 54 Mereworth Road, Tunbridge Wells. Local newspapers reported both the couples Golden and Diamond wedding Anniversaries. He died on the 15th December 1945, and his wife in the following March.
All love all of Brady's channels, but the nerdiness level of Objectivity is so good.
Would love to see and hear more about the clocks.
+Remco Smit your wish is our command
Awesome! This Institute is great, we need more videos :)
Yes! More videos on clocks please!
Yes! Thank you so much. These objects are beautiful and i would love to see more of them : )
I just wanted to see more of that anniversary clock, the camera cut away from it so damn quick
As a self proclaimed horological nerd, that anniversary clock is just drop dead gorgeous...
Those chimes in the beginning are absolutely magical
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day....
Alan you forgot to mention the reason why there are three pendulums in sync. The idea is that their synchronized vibration will sympathetically influence the vibration of each individual pendulum, and therefore reduce the variations likely to influence a single pendulum due to the escapement or external sources. That's the theory, anyway but even if not effective, it all looks very attractive.
You're dead right about this. But Alan certainly is aware of this. I'm sure a lot of this chat ended up on the cutting room floor. And the sympathetic behaviour *is most certainly effective in this clock; for one thing, there is no other clock in the world suspended on steel guy lines - any other clock would quickly stop due to movement of the case induced by the induced movement of a single pendulum. The three pendulums mop up each others' waste energy so that very little is lost to the environment, and very little of the environment gets into their little microcosm.
At last! Another video from Objectivity! Yey! *pun alert:* "It was about time!"
+John Violidakis we do videos every week. Do you have alerts/notifications on for us?!
Objectivity Yes, of course.I can't complain. We enjoy yorur vides regularly. I just said that deliberately there, just for the pun!
*pun alert*
Brady: "Use the notification button....Does that ring a bell?"
Destin should walk through those halls with that binaural audio for The sound traveler channel :)
+Salensus that's a great idea. I might offer to do one for him as I owe him one. It'd really suit his Sound Traveller project!!!
This episode was great! I love old devices and the workmanship on these old clacks is magnificent. Those intricate parts former students had made were fantastically delicate and precise. It would be amazing to learn to make time pieces like this.
I LOVE mechanical clocks. That glass one in the center of the main hall was spectacular and I am jealous of the students that get to study there.
Wow! That anniversary clock is mindblowing. A true work of art! Love the triple pendulum design. In fact, I love everything about it.
I could watch that for hours.
Ticking away, the moments, that make up a dull day.
3:00 I like the way Brady go up in pitch when he says 1906. :-D
3:49 Are you kidding? These watches sound beautiful, i could listen to a whole video just of them 🕰
I feel like this is the appropriate time to make clock jokes
Jonathon Hillestad Except people get really ticked off when you do that. Some people just can't face them. Best to dial it back a bit...
Yeah I see how some could be wound up by that, but surely there's no need for alarm.
Well, hearing the word horological reminds me of the last (as of 2017) Pirates of the Caribbean movie where the girl says she's a horologist and Jack and crew think she's a 'lady of the evening'. :D
I'd like to just chime in here and say these puns are driving me cuckoo. I hear there's a movement to escape them.
I dont have time for that nonsense. :)
Great video Dr. Haran! That clock towards the end of the video is amazing. It's so impressive how creative they got with a clock.
That 150th anniversary clock! Very cool.
Wonderful place, and I would love to own the Horologist's tie.
Great video......
Didn't know I would love this channel so much! Thanks Brady!
about time!
pleaaasseeee moreeee!!!!!
there's something brilliant about clockwork and clocks, both brilliant and somehow mysterious. I would love to visit this place. Or even better live in it with all those clocks...
Great video Dr. Haran! Loving that triple pendulum suspended clock!
It was about time... and wonderful! 👍
These should be longer.
Well said at the end there. That was a hard question Brady.
very cool! I want more of that please!
Nice one, and fancy little drone intro there!
Gotta love Mr. Midleton's tie!!!! Great video!
Hehe, that would be VISCOUNT Midleton...
Kosmos Horology Oops on me!!! Pardon me Viscount Midleton!! You know I made sure I spelled his last name right and I was going to Google him to see if he did have a title, but I didn't !!!
The intro sounds just like the song Time.
6:04 I'm a bit sceptical to this. There are less wear and tear in a quartz clock. A quartz clock should normaly work fine for many decades and if the movement fails you can replace it for a new one just as you might have to replace the mainspring or a gear in a clock.
great episode
Awesome!
It's my hope that our sojourn at the horological institute, is not yet at it's end.
+TheyCallMeNewb more soon
Very cool episode. I love clocks!
When did you get a drone? Nice opening shot!
Sorry Brady, couldn't handle it. As beautiful as clocks are and as much as a marvel as they are, I cannot abide the things. Just call me, Captain Hook.
Great episode! I love mechanical clocks and watches. I wouldn't trade my Swiss automatic watch for a battery-driven one.
Drone Intro, yay
Objectivity at the British Horological Institute - and it's about time!
boom boom
i wish he did more vids like this!
and a 7 minute vid too!
feel like he's been milking the Royal Society stuff for too long.
When did the recording of this take place? I love you guys and during the summer i was completing a 7 week placement at the institute. I finished on the 28th of July. How did i not know about this?!!
I love intricate mechanisms
Awesome. Thanks for the morning brain food.
Did this video remind anyone else of John Mclemore from S Town podcast?
great video on a great topic. bonus points for indisputable proof that drone footage without relevance is a bad thing :)
This is the single best place on the planet.
God, I could watch clockworks all day.
OMG I love the clock related videos. Sounds like my house, except I have more gongs than bells in my clocks.
You should have invited Clickspring for this one!
That tie!
Good heavens, just look at the time!
Holy crap, "commemorate" is actually spelled wrong, unless this is one of those US/UK things.
Please tell me this is a US/UK thing and that it's not actually been engraved incorrectly.
Oh no! It's too late to change now...
OMG you're right. Someone dun goofed.
4:49 looks like it's engraved wrong... pretty sure it's not supposed to be "comemmorate".
What time is it, Eccles?
Yes, yes. Quite nice. But what time is it NOW?
And when will it be "then"? "Soon."
It's relative. there is no now.
This is where they recorded the intro to Time on Dark Side of the Moon. No really, trufax.
timey-wimey.
i'd love to hear a sound traveler recording of that room at noon...
That place is really cool but I think I'd go crazy there.
If I can just plug one of my favorite channels, Clickspring is run by an Australian amateur clockmaker and his videos on making mechanical clocks and other mechanisms are top notch, everyone should go check him out.
Almost thought that Pink Floyd was going to start playing in the beginning
He is the Time Lord
If you liked that you should check out the 10,000 year clock they are building in the Nevada desert.
How did u film the opening few seconds?? Helicopter??
My bet is on drone
Remotely operated multicopter (drone)?
Is it legal?
James Klett it’s from a drone. you can see the shadow from a rotor in the upper left.
It'll be the best chimes in the uk for the next four and a half years.
This was perfectly horific
Could have watched an hour of that.
horology is one of those misleading words in English. You can get the "ology" part as "study of" but if you don't know what the "horo" part means, it can lead to misconceptions.
Do you know if Mr T. Peake, jr. is related to astronaut Timothy Peake?
Can he tell us when exactly is peanut butter jelly time?
For some reason I though he said a personal *_kinetic_* service and pictured someone kicking me out of bed every morning to get me moving.
I couldn't stay there, the sound of clocks is like water torture to my ears 😯 After a short time the sound drives me nuts. I can't sleep in a room with mechanical clocks because my ears tune to them and I can't get the sound out of my head.
The anniversary clock reminded me of the Clock of the Long Now project. Google it, it's fascinating, well worth your time (no pun intended)
There's a prototype in the Science Museum in London. It had already stopped working when I visited about twenty years ago, a testament to hubris.
@David_K_Booth That prototype was never meant to work as long as the actual clock. It was just to test if the design would actually function.
What do you do if your dog or cat is infested with ticks? Use something tock-sick.
What do you know, clock-people have their own lingo
Nothing compared to the Harris One. There can be only one.
Clocken-peal
the horologist sounds very much like Christopher Hitchens!
Am I the only one who spent the entire video desperately hoping for the surprise cameo appearance by Roger Waters after the clock chime intro? (He was very much missed in the Sixty Symbols "Far Side of the Moon" video as well, btw.)
Roger Waters in Objectivity? Sure, and pigs might fly...
How anyone could possibly sleep in there 😂
Misread the title...
This video was a little too short IMHO
Sounds like Doc. Brown's lab
I've got time for another one. Have you?
Pink Floyd - TIME.
No, I don't like that you let him touch things!
Is that Benedict Cumberbatch?
You mean Wimbledon Tennismatch?
Insert Pink Floyd. Win!
Why don't they have Ahmed's clock on display?
Because it was a bomb
Because it apparently was a con/hoax.
He's wrong about the quartz clock. There are quartz clocks on the Voyager space probes, going for three decades without maintenance in the coldest parts of the solar system. The same technology keeps quartz watches going for decades too. Tell that to clock snobs when they look down on your cheap Casio. I do. Don't get me wrong. I admire the precision engineering of mechanical clocks, but quartz clocks are a marvel of early electrical engineering and integral to space exploration. I strongly dislike the ad antiquitatem argument. Mechanical is nicer. Quartz is better.
kentrel2. How much did that space clock cost? Your "nicer-better" line was value laden though you make a point about keeping a value out of the equation. Interesting. All arguments are provisional, and I didn't sense you disliked the historic, just wanted to keep it fair. Am I right?
Exactly so. Indeed despite what he says, your average cheap quartz watch, provided it is made with half decent components, is going to keep running much longer than this absolutely exquisite piece of engineering. But you wouldn`t bother trying to service it because you could just by another cheap watch (probably better still due to advance in technology). The difference is that the commemorative clock is so beautiful that to take that attitude with it would be a crime.
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I can confirm. IamTills was indeed first.