Josh Clark

who he talked about, there was actually a Latin term, horologia, which is the Latin term for time measuring device.

And they were using weights to turn wheels like exactly one time over the course of one day.

And again, they would get kind of break that down and get more specific as they learn more about gears and how the weights work.

But, you know, the weights, if you look at a grandfather clock or a cuckoo clock like these things all have and we'll get to the pendulums, not only pendulums in a grandfather clock, but it's weights that are still operating this thing.

Yeah.

And one of the inventions that really kind of, it was a game changer.

It's called the virgin foliot mechanism.

Essentially, you remember in Karate Kid 2 where all of those Okinawan villagers are sitting there playing their hand drums?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

So that's essentially a verge and a foliot, kind of.

Imagine the drum part is the, I think, foliot, and the verge is the handle.

And when there's like a crown wheel, the gear, the main gear that operates a clock, when it turns, it turns the foliot.

And the foliate turns like slowly one way and then slowly back another.

And when it moves back in position, the gear is allowed to turn.

So you're actually controlling the kinetic energy of those weights that's falling and making the whole thing move.

And by doing that in a precise way, that's how you can keep track of time.

Yeah, and, you know, it stays constant because that thing is constantly stopping and starting, so it's going to keep that weight from picking up momentum as it goes down and descends.

So that's how you get the constant speed, and that's also how you can create a ticking sound.