Subject: Re: Wanted: Congreve clock plans

From: [email-masked](Wm. Congreve (Sr.) )
Date: 11 May 1996 15:43:20 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
writes: 
>
>Does anyone have plans for the construction of the Congreve rolling
ball clock?
>Please reply by email.

Bill Smith in Tennessee ([email-masked]) sells a book by John
Wilding, in England, which is a complete how to text on building a
congreve clock. Bill's phone number is (615) 947 9671.  He's a nice guy
and has written several how-to clock building books of his own, also.

                  --Alan Heldman

---

From: [email-masked] (Steve Rayner)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:40:42 GMT

It was first published in Model Engineer, and later made into a book.  A 
now deceased friend made one, fascinating to watch.

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Steve Wellcome) says:

>!mrnews.mro.dec.com!news
>From: Steve Wellcome <[email-masked]>
>Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking
>Subject: Re: Wanted: Congreve clock plans
>Date: 10 May 1996 15:51:15 GMT
>Organization: Embedded and Real-Time Engineering, Digital Equipment Corp.
>Lines: 7
>Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
>References: <[email-masked]>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: lbsc.shr.dec.com
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)
>To: [email-masked]
>
>John Wilding wrote a book, "How to Build a Congreve Clock" (or
>some equally obvious title).  I'm not sure of a source, but I
>bet TEE Publishing in England has it or could get it.  I've
>found TEE very easy to do business with; send them your credit
>card # and all the currency transactions happen automagically.
>
>
>

-- 
************************************************************************
     MY SECRET IS OIL OF HARLEY DAVIDSON !      Steve Rayner
************************************************************************