The Millennium Time Project: Alternative Time Measuring Mechanisms by Miltiadis A. Boboulos - HTML preview

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16.4. Design concept

The idea for transferring the unevenly tensioned coil spring attraction into a uniform movement of a scale time indicating hand is developed using a hydraulic brake having a torque characteristic varying as a linear function. This is based on

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