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hitancrias

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« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2005, 11:32:59 pm »
Is it a mechanical Odometer, by chance?
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« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2005, 03:58:47 am »
I think we need to pay more attention to the gear on top and that slot thing on the top right.

I have a feeling its a table for some game that also holds the peices.
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« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2005, 04:08:31 am »
a hydraulic elevator ?
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« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2005, 11:07:56 am »
hitancrias has won.
The Odomiter was created by Archimedes for the Roman Legion so they could properly carry out the Emperors order that \"all Roman roads be marked each mile with a stone of location and distance from Rome.\"
Here is a cookie.
The primal gear is attached to a weel and drives the larger gear clearly seen from the front with a \'single pin\' gear system. The long hand that Efflixi noticed (and some thought was related to a clock) uses the \'single pin\' method to drive the top gear. The final gear (on top) has a series of marbles set in it. When a marble falls you have traveled one mile. The total mileage can be calculated by \'counting your marbles\'.

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I bow out and turn it over to the next Clue Master

PS I would like to know if hitancrias was watching the same TV show I was.
History Channel much?
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« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2005, 12:01:12 pm »
Nice one!

My turn!


I hope ill be able to explain you what\'s its goal...
I recognize this one isnt easy so I can answer to your question since the beginning
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« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2005, 12:29:59 pm »
Yay! *munches the cookie*

No XpYtZ, I never watched that TV-channel, it\'s not on the cable where I live. I simply searched Wikipedia for Archimedes. I only knew the \'Eureka\'-story about him, so I was pleased to read he did much more. There I also found that he possibly invented the odometer. The description seemed to match the picture you gave. And a google immage search on odometer and archimedes brought up similar pictures. :)

*looks at fkens object*

Well it  looks like a scientifical test setting of some kind. As you stated we could ask questions: Has it something to do with \'light\'?
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« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2005, 12:39:34 pm »
is it some kind of laser-ey thingy?
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« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2005, 01:24:06 pm »
not a laser but it has something to deals with light youre right hitancrias
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« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2005, 01:54:39 pm »
Should we be able to read the Dymo label on that thing in the front?

If so, could you tell us what it says please?

Does it have a medical connection?
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« Reply #24 on: August 25, 2005, 06:42:02 pm »
It looks like it has different prisms and redirections of the sort... Does it have anything to do with optics(ie in physics) or waves?
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« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2005, 06:43:21 pm »
Is that device for measuring absorption of infra-red radiation in carbon dioxide atmosphere ? Or something like that ?
Non-portable alcometer ;) ?
Generally - a kind of spectrometer ?
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« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2005, 09:37:42 pm »
By any chance is that the machine they teleported a single photon of light with? ?(
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« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2005, 11:24:42 pm »
lol

hmmm guys you are far.

Yeah it\'s an optical machine (and yeah it has something to deals with light waves) ... Moreover I\'ll give you a little help :

This machine is the experience of a famous experience which... never success because (the inventor was american... hmmm I am kidding ! I am kidding !) what its inventor searched was totally wrong.

But this machine was very important because it revolutionned the humanity physic...

I think I help you too much... maybe I have destruct the fun ...
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« Reply #28 on: August 25, 2005, 11:45:56 pm »
Is it an (of course fruitless) attempt to a perpetuum mobile? Or a device that should give so called \'free energy\'?
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« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2005, 10:25:07 am »
Michelson-Morley device ?
Does the text below describes it ? (found it here: http://encarta.msn.com/text_761579230__1/Light.html)
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In 1887 American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward Morley performed a very sensitive experiment designed to detect the effects of ether. They constructed an interferometer with two light beams: one that pointed along the direction of Earth\'s motion, and one that pointed in a direction perpendicular to Earth\'s motion. The beams were reflected by mirrors at the ends of their paths and returned to a common point where they could interfere. Along the first beam, the scientists expected Earth\'s motion to increase or decrease the beam\'s velocity so that the number of wave cycles throughout the path would be changed slightly relative to the second beam, resulting in a characteristic interference pattern. Knowing the velocity of Earth, it was possible to predict the change in the number of cycles and the resulting interference pattern that would be observed. The Michelson-Morley apparatus was fully capable of measuring it, but the scientists did not find the expected results.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment
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