“We have a place up in Montana, if you know where that is. It’s on an island on the lake. My brother had told me earlier to keep an eye toward the sky on a particular day. And there he came, zooming through the sky in the cockpit of his fighter jet — illegally, I’m sure, now that I know. He came in, did a little airshow for his little brother. For me, that was like, oh my gosh, the
The Basics And Beyond: Minute Repeater
The most visible action of a chiming watch, where each hammer strikes its corresponding gong, appears rather simple until we consider how the motion of the hands is converted into the correct sequence of strikes. The mechanism responsible for this, a
