And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I watch a few guys on YouTube that take $100,000+ watches apart, clean the parts, repair them & put them back together working under a microscope or eye loop. I do the same thing with boat engines, kinda.
I look at that as a collection of new ideas of thousands of people over multiple centuries. Quite astounding, perhaps difficult to grasp the genesis of this or that part arising from the continual inquisition of what if this was done like that.
And instead of the continued stream of new inventions diverging into many branches, they remain focused upon one goal; to build a better timepiece.
Simultaneously, the advancement in methods and materials most suitable to the purpose.
And all those tiny bits are made by hand and hanscrew machinery, talk about industrial art. The epitome of it, or acme.
ReplyDeleteI watch a few guys on YouTube that take $100,000+ watches apart, clean the parts, repair them & put them back together working under a microscope or eye loop. I do the same thing with boat engines, kinda.
ReplyDelete---one of them springs is backwards!
ReplyDeleteIs that a Westinghouse top-loading washer?
ReplyDeletePeople now need YouTube videos to show them how to change a faucet washer.
ReplyDeleteNo dads.
DeleteI look at that as a collection of new ideas of thousands of people over multiple centuries. Quite astounding, perhaps difficult to grasp the genesis of this or that part arising from the continual inquisition of what if this was done like that.
ReplyDeleteAnd instead of the continued stream of new inventions diverging into many branches, they remain focused upon one goal; to build a better timepiece.
Simultaneously, the advancement in methods and materials most suitable to the purpose.