Monday, October 11, 2010

What makes a 300-year-old pocket watch tick? : Nature News

State-of-the-art X-ray scans have revealed the internal mechanisms of a corroded, barnacle-covered pocket watch recovered from a seventeenth-century wreck. The watch looks little more than a lump of rock from the outside, but the scans show that the mechanism inside is beautifully preserved, from delicate cogwheels and Egyptian-style pillars to the maker's inscription.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101011/full/news.2010.529.html

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