Fascinating. Surprising that something as simple as a pendulum came after something seemingly more complex. Every day is a school day.
@gabrielbuilder1529
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes something simple is way harder to make than a more complex version of it
@brenryan1
Жыл бұрын
Every day you learn something old!
@Pat5843
Жыл бұрын
If you'd really like to blow your mind, look at carbs / early MECHANICAL fuel injection before the invention of the modern solenoid electric fuel injector.
@crabby7668
Жыл бұрын
@@Pat5843 some of us grew up with carbs, but I don't think they are more complex than modern fuel injection if you take into account the electronics.
@Pat5843
Жыл бұрын
@@crabby7668 I grew up rebuilding them into my mid twenties. all of the MATH that the ECU is doing for fuel injection was done in an analog way for carbs / mechanical injection. It wasn't as accurate sure but the actual mechanical complexity compared to a solenoid valve is nuts. the injector itself is extremely simple in comparison. if you're adding in the ECU that runs it into the equation then yeah it's more complex. Look up the Bosch K-Jetronic. this was a mass air flow capable mechanical injection system w/ single port injection made after the late 60's
@TheScreamingFrog916
Жыл бұрын
This is so cool! I love mechanical gadgets, and those clocks are the best :-) Thanks for sharing, and best wishes for your continued success.
@arnomrnym6329
Жыл бұрын
Great work! 👍🏾😎
@monicapushkin3274
Жыл бұрын
Wristwatch version please ....
@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639
Жыл бұрын
Did something break in the end, there?
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
No, nothing broke, but an end cap holding a gear on its axle flew off, causing that gear to disengage from the drive wheel, which allowed the clock to succumb to gravity! Caught it, and no damage occurred.
@VoidHalo
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THE BLUEPRINTS! So many channels would just show you the clock and how pretty it looks and that's it. But having some sort of documentation to go on in order to understand its operation, especially for such a unique time-keeping device, is very much appreciated. Have you got any more blueprints or higher quality images of blueprints?
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
I think there were at least 30 pages of blueprints, which Ray purchased from the designer of the clock, Clayton Boyer. You can view his designs at his website, where plans are available for purchase. www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm
@gradybender3600
Жыл бұрын
What a legend
@brandonjacky1825
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe he spent 30 hours out of his day just to record that last bit of the clock sliding down the rail. True dedication!
@kevinrussell6530
Жыл бұрын
No, it didn't take 30 hours. It would have if he left the swinging pendulum-like thing in, but he didn't, he took it out so it would move a lot faster. Notice how at the end it was going too fast and he had to stop it?
@MajoroTom
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinrussell6530 that was the joke
@fins59
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinrussell6530 Whoosh
@notfeedynotlazy
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinrussell6530 SOMEONE was bound to fall for it. It was just a matter of time.
@NoNameAtAll2
Жыл бұрын
cameraman can do anything
@danielgimeno
2 жыл бұрын
I love the second mechanism and the wind rack, it's incredible!!
@st.charlesstreet9876
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely facilitating! Never ever knew that such a time piece existed and I love clocks to boot. Thank You for the informative posting!
@SaintRegime
Жыл бұрын
Please use clocks responsibly for their intended purposes. Might I recommend a soccer ball? =)
@st.charlesstreet9876
Жыл бұрын
That and Along with my last comment too 😅 The B was too close to the H. Let’s just blame it on Siri, everyone else does! 😜
@CrippleX89
Жыл бұрын
Cool clock but I couldn't sit through the entire clip, that awful music annoyed the crap out of me.
@candyneige6609
4 жыл бұрын
This clock would be a perfect addition for Crusader Kings fans as it's timeline (1066 - 1444) overlaps with the 350-year gap between the foliot and the pendulum (1306 - 1656).
@2adamast
Жыл бұрын
The minutes hand came with the pendulum.
@candyneige6609
Жыл бұрын
@@2adamast Then how can you tell the minute without the minute hand ?
@2adamast
Жыл бұрын
@@candyneige6609 _Minute hands only came into regular use around 1690_ In medieval time hours and midday were mainly real and season dependent.
@candyneige6609
Жыл бұрын
@@2adamast If that's the case, then imagine how complicated the mechanism of a medieval clock really is.
@2adamast
Жыл бұрын
@@candyneige6609 The japanese had temporal time clocks until 1860, I doubt medieval clocks were too much concerned about solving that problem. Of sundials only astrolabes got the hours right.
@tslim250
Жыл бұрын
This is a really old video but i just stumbled on this and would love to make a variant of this out of sheet metal... is there a cad file for this somewhere??? OMG THE END LOLOLOL The catastrophic failure was a great touch, dude you are cool man!
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
Don't know if this is the same as a cad file, but I see that plans are now available as a dxf file. Here's the link to where you can order plans are check out the other designs as well. www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/medievalrackpage1.html
@GrnArrow092
Жыл бұрын
I've never seen a clock powered this way before. It's very interesting and I like how you wind it up. You just simply give it a push. I like it.
@shaneh1003
Жыл бұрын
Man, I love this thing. Always wondering why I waste my life when there are so many things I could create or build. Hopefully whoever does this work feels appreciated and knows how respected they are by certain people. It’s astounding to me that completely fake people that create nothing are famous and worshipped, while those that are far greater human beings and create great things are ghosts to society.
@toomdog
Жыл бұрын
“So don’t do that.” That one caught me off guard 😂😂😂
@UnscannableDrew
Жыл бұрын
In addition to the hour and minute hand, this clock tells you how much time has passed by how far it has moved along the wall.
@sahilsardar1237
5 жыл бұрын
Really very very beautiful invention. A lot of thanks to the maker.Hats off sir !
@HrRezpatex
Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure this would sell very well to day also. 🙂
@Klayperson
Жыл бұрын
I've seen this design somewhere, but i have no idea where. Not in real life but probably in film or video games.
@matthewtalbot-paine7977
Жыл бұрын
319 subs 71 thousand views. The youtube algorithm strikes again!
@wishusknight3009
Жыл бұрын
Great video, though it probably could have done without the music. Or at least a song without the ringing. .... But the craftsmanship and detail are just outstanding.
@EoinTremont
Жыл бұрын
When he “wound” the clock, I seriously gasped and whispered “oh it’s powered by gravity!” Amazing!!
@pbjandahighfive
Жыл бұрын
The music makes it really difficult to hear the commentary. I know this is 6 years old, but if you ever decide to do a "remastered" edition, turn the music down or off entirely. I couldn't understand roughly half of what you said throughout the video, especially at the very end when the clock has a failure.
@moalanikai
8 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on an excellent build, Ray. Your Medieval Rack is Spectacular!!! I love seeing such beautiful craftsmanship. Aloha. Clayton
@gravesclayton3604
Жыл бұрын
Aloha!
@KUWAITGRIPSVEVO
Жыл бұрын
Dude searched “clock music” on a royalty free site and used the first result. Sometimes you gotta respect the mind of the boomer
@rawbacon
Жыл бұрын
KZitem doing its thing again, for 5 years there was just a comment or 2 per year then Bam!
@Daragausthedragon
Жыл бұрын
This is an amazing video I wish I saw this 6 years ago when it came out
@garryferrington811
Жыл бұрын
They had clocks as early as the 1300's? That's amazing. It's interesting to see how they did it. Primitive, obviously, but apparently it worked!
@JackieOwl94
Жыл бұрын
Oh no. I’d say they had a very advanced awareness of the intricacies of weight, balance, and motion dynamics. Though they may not have known everything about the universe, they were most certainly not primitive people.
@GGGeeerrryy
Жыл бұрын
Sun clocks: Am i a joke to you?
@Peter_Scheen
Жыл бұрын
How do you set the time on this clock? especially the minutes?
@anonymous-mj8wb
Жыл бұрын
im just guessing, but it probably uses friction. where the hands can be moved on the axel with enough force to not break them, but enough force to hold them in place as it turns. seeing as you dont adjust them often, they shouldnt wear out. i have seen many old clocks use that design.
@MrocznyTechnik
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting presentation. Only flaw is this annoying bell ring in the background music.
@marksingleton2739
Жыл бұрын
Good choice on the music too! Guess I might be the first to catch that.
@TheRealInscrutable
Жыл бұрын
It seems you could paint the time on the wall behind it and just have a pointer on it as it moves down.
@qdaniele97
Жыл бұрын
Not so easy, you still need a mechanism to slow the movement at a predictable and constant rate. That's the whole point of pendulums and other oscillating mechanisms, their period is always constant.
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
With the time on the wall you'd need to push the clock up the incline at precisely the same time each day and to the same point. The clock dials stay put while it's being pushed up the rack.
@Humble_Electronic_Musician
Жыл бұрын
So awesome! And well presented!
@AshGreen359
Жыл бұрын
Please add to cart 🛒
@sakirabbit900
Жыл бұрын
What a clever mechanism! The handmade beauty of it all just makes it all the more fascinating. Well done!
@NoctisIgnem
Жыл бұрын
Music needs to be way quiter, even without would better
@GrandmaLoves2Scuba
Жыл бұрын
Magnificent! I want!
@charlesprokopp276
Жыл бұрын
Congratulations! I've built many of Clayton's clocks over the years, and they are works of art! This one, however, has stymied me for over three years. If the teeth on the inclined rack are not absolutely precise, it won't run. I've rebuilt the rack four times with no luck. It seems to me that a laser-cutting CAD/CAM setup is needed for that part. (I'll keep trying.)
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
Hi Charles. Ray built two of these clocks, one for me, and one for himself, cutting out all the parts doubled up so that they were identical. Ray liked to experiment, and he later made a modification to his rack clock. He removed the teeth completely from the incline, and converted the small cogged drive gear to a pulley. The pulley is wound with line, which is anchored to the top of the rack. He fashioned a small crank to attach to the wheel, so he could wind the line onto the pulley as the clock went up the rack. That clock operates as before, with the pulley turning the mechanism instead of the cog connection. I made a short video of Ray winding his modified rack clock, which you can see here. kzitem.info/news/bejne/tZ-gz5t3e56GioY&ab_channel=MarkFrank
@charlesprokopp276
Жыл бұрын
@@TheTortoiseandhare I made a lantern pinion for that purpose, but was stymied by irregularities in the first rack. After three more attempts, each more painstaking than the last, I finally surrendered. For now! I hadn't thought of using a pulley and cord...Hmmm...
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
@@charlesprokopp276 One of the things I talked to Ray about, but that he didn't try, was to take a couple loops around the pulley and then anchor that line taut to both ends of the rack. It would probably require some sort of non-skid surface on the spool (or with enough line each way fastened to the spool), but you could then eliminate the crank and push the clock up the incline just like when it had teeth. If the line didn't slip on the spool, it would run down the incline as before. Just more food for thought. Unfortunately, Ray passed at age 92 a couple years ago so he won't be trying that.
@raykent3211
7 жыл бұрын
Nice clear explanation, thanks.
@timhinchcliffe5372
Жыл бұрын
I want the wrist watch version.
@jerryfacts9749
Жыл бұрын
Not an easy project to build. Lots of time and very precise work involved. Impressive!
@kurtschlarb9762
Жыл бұрын
Been watching KZitem since day one. This is one of the best videos I have ever seen.
@SteveMacSticky
Жыл бұрын
wow that is ingenious
@womanofsubstance8735
Жыл бұрын
How cool is that?! I want one!
@USERNAME1-x5u
Жыл бұрын
This is like some DOS game Maddog shit here. You know the game from 1996 "The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian"? Where he makes that clock in his bedroom?
@reachandler3655
Жыл бұрын
This is awesome! Never seen anything like this, I'd definately prefer this to a cuckoo!
@JimCoder
Жыл бұрын
It wants to be mounted on a stairway. That way, every night when you go upstairs to bed, you can rewind the clock along the way!
@timparris8230
Жыл бұрын
Was thinking the same, but our stairs are all sloped the opposite direction. (wall is only on left side going up.)
@sloghable
Жыл бұрын
this could be interesting.... if presented right by a voice actor and proper film techniques.
@noahaustin9011
Жыл бұрын
Correction: The use of pendulums in clocks did not happen until 17th century, but evidence shown by archeologists show pendulums themselves were used by Egyptians and Romans for other purposes. They were not "invented" when listed in the video. Just switched to use for clocks.
@ke6gwf
Жыл бұрын
I will buy one! Lol And I love how this all of a sudden got picked up by The Great Algorithm after 6 years.
@cliffjamesmusic
Жыл бұрын
I found a very old clock when I was in Spain. It was used to fix the timing of events. It was called the mañana.
@videoharry_
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting content, but please turn down the music! I can barely hear what you’re saying!
@lunar9342
Жыл бұрын
What if you put marks along the path to show how long has passed since it was set? I often lose track of the time I did stuff at, so it would help to have a direct reference! You could also use it as a timer that way! Then you could add in a secondary and tertiary sliding mechanism to mark the start and end of the timer!
@Cosigner22
Жыл бұрын
@@dilbot1512 ...you clearly didn't watch or listen to the video. Recap: it takes 30 hrs to complete it's downward path and the face of the clock resets every hour.
@Zander10102
Жыл бұрын
Winding springs is for chumps. Just move the while clock lol.
@killmeister2271
Жыл бұрын
this has me thinking: ok so when something orbits around a planet, it's falling to the planet but never actually hits the planet making it therefore spin forever. could a perpetual motion machine be made that is designed to orbit a planet, and could it forever provide electricity using gravity?
@Ovahlls
Жыл бұрын
Looks like something you'd find in Ron Weasley's house. It's awesome!
@justinrisley8604
Жыл бұрын
If you put it in a stairway it could go for even longer, but wouldn't be as visible
@nathansteiner8595
Жыл бұрын
interesting how this predates the pendulum clock even tho it feels like its more sophisticated.
@DevinDTV
Жыл бұрын
why would you pick a song with an obnoxious bell ringing in it?
@Erasmus12
Жыл бұрын
Oh man what a pleasure for my eyes!! Where can i find the projects?
@TheLegend-wz7fl
Жыл бұрын
I would commission a skilled craftsman my entire monthly wage to make me one of these
@Smarglenargle
Жыл бұрын
i'll download this to my phone archives for the day i get isekai'ed or time traveled to medieval times so i can recreate it and sell it for lots of money.
@algodoomarbleracing
2 жыл бұрын
3:50 lol
@Dennis19901
Жыл бұрын
Seems like Hank Hill gave up selling propane, I'll tell you hwat!
@1marcelfilms
Жыл бұрын
now without the music in the background
@Caldoric
Жыл бұрын
Yeah... Letting the clock run without the pendulum-equivalent like that wasn't smart. Most probably did some damage to the mechanism, especially towards the end when it started sliding _really_ fast.
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
It went really fast when a retainer came off a wheel, disengaging some of the gears that were keeping it somewhat in check. No damage, though.
@hansdampf640
Жыл бұрын
Antikythera mechanism is giggeling about this ^^
@AstroInfinitum
Жыл бұрын
The song is nice, adding the shrill ringing in with the song is a wretched and horrible thing to do.
@leyrua
Жыл бұрын
Does it have an alarm function? Because then you could set an alarm to remind you to wind the clock.
@MagnetOnlyMotors
Жыл бұрын
0:31 gyrates. Super nice clock ! 😊
@jreese8284
Жыл бұрын
Intriguing, and just lovely to look at. Beautiful wood!
@johnsamu
Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful clock and a wonderful mechanism, never seen that mechanism before.
@randygreen007
Жыл бұрын
Even more proof that gravity has an effect on humans over time.
@mazack00
Жыл бұрын
looks like something broke when you let it go way too fast.
@GorgutsFan1998
9 ай бұрын
I dont want to hear shit about the "dark ages"
@OnlyTwoShoes
Жыл бұрын
Okay, but why didn't they just use a battery?
@dgloom
Жыл бұрын
Love it
@ajenc100
7 жыл бұрын
Hey nice job where I can fine o buy the plans good job
@TheTortoiseandhare
7 жыл бұрын
www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm
@karencolon5152
Жыл бұрын
Powered by gravity, but really the energy comes from the push you give it each day, which can be equated to calories, I think.
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
Just as when you wind a spring powered clock, it takes energy to turn the key, but that energy is stored in the spring to be released slowly. Same with a grandfather clock, it takes energy to lift the weights, and that energy is dissipated slowly as the weight descends to power the clock, while the pendulum regulates the speed of the movement.
@glowiever
Жыл бұрын
it cannot move perpetually can it?
@mindwarp12
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, inspirational even!
@chenlee3240
Жыл бұрын
I do not get it? If the folio is off be the smallest amount would that not add up so fast. I've never understood these. 1/60 of a sec is off one sec a minute and then one minute every hour, 24 minutes a day!!??
@ke6gwf
Жыл бұрын
Old clocks were not very accurate, but it was just the way things were. That's one reason why cathedrals would ring their bells at a particular time, that way everyone could set their clocks to match at least within town, and if they were off compared to the next town over it didn't really matter. It's kind of like how we are generally ok with a wall clock that stays within a few minutes, or a watch that stays within a few seconds, but for a scientist they need millisecond accuracy, and in the same way, back in the day, unless you were trying to do precise astronomical observations or set course on a ship, the precise accuracy was not that important.
@rishabtirupathi9431
Жыл бұрын
I cannot believe it is powered by nothing but gravity! Absolutely incredible!
@Ebani
Жыл бұрын
Funny as historically, clocks that don't run through gravity/whind up mechanism are a very recent thing.
@rishabtirupathi9431
Жыл бұрын
@@Ebani oh.
@brianshoubert7803
Жыл бұрын
Awesome clock!
@vandliszt
Жыл бұрын
I e joy the clock but love the song.
@caveatemp
Жыл бұрын
I'm ordering mine today on Amazon.
@darknesskingsized8996
Жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what this song is?
@progect3548
Жыл бұрын
I wonder why this is in my recommended
@thegrandestbazaar4800
Жыл бұрын
Lmao wtf VERY GOOD
@appel9214
Жыл бұрын
For some reason I hope that you just took a jigsaw and not a CNC to make this piece of art.
@TheTortoiseandhare
Жыл бұрын
All the pieces were cut by hand using a scroll saw. Well, yes, a band saw got involved for the straight edges.
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