They look a lot better now. And there is a scale to it too. A strange one but still, a scale. All what you see here times 8. The planetary gear box with the drive shaft and the angular gear box. You can see the counting wheels. Angular gearbox and the gears driving the final axes. Saturday, 22 March 2008. A MECHANICAL REAL TIME PLANETARIUM.

With the glass plates mounted. The front panels in wallnut. Cutting the glass plates on a waterjet. Thomas is not afraid of cutting his arms off or so. Wednesday, 19 May 2010. A new BOX for the beast. So I designed a new one. Had it cut out on a laser by the super demo guys in our show room. Nice blue sparcs when it goes in plasma mode. The tube holders in 3mm thick stainless steel. Sven thought it might look cool in white.

The Importance of Standardized Time. When being asked the question what is time? Most people will respond with something along the lines of a continuous measurement which remains independent of outside influence. But what they may not realize is that the time that they have become familiar with today came to be only approximately one century ago when the idea of world standard was introduced.