Missing my life in Switzerland
To the right a very, very interesting gentleman. He was involved in a a project creating the atomic wristwatch. Not a radio watch receiving radio signals from an atomic watch somewhere, but actually a wristwatch with a small embedded isotope making it a t...
It was a test to see if it was possible to make a wristwatch with an internal isotope.
The idea was to create something way above the newly started beta quartz project. First of all, radiation was a problem. Second, it became way too big. Third, it really did not work as planned. So the project was scrapped. That’s the story. And my dear fr...
Thanks, very interesting! In general, I find the science that goes behind these projects (and horology in general) very fascinating, since at high levels it obviously involves very advanced research in different fields.
The more technical aspects of what watchmakers, or R&D departments at manufactures, do are honestly too far away from my own training in school for me to understand or replicate (my PhD as well as my current research are in abstract algebra! ;-), but ...
Fascinating stuff. I’m no longer involved in the nuclear business but I’m lucky to have seen it all.
Front end through back end. Mines, fuel, component manufacture, Reactor builds and operation, turbines, decommissioning and disposal and even fuel re-processing. I can’t begin to describe the incredible things I’m fortunate enough to have seen with my own...
"And now, for something . . .
. . . completely different." Yes, David Berning's vacuum-tube regulated quartz movement. Art ...
