Drawing of a clockwork spider wheel and hairpin.
Extract from Introductory Chapter;-
The "Spider tops," which are frequently sold in the streets of
London,
consist of a heavy little disc mounted on a spindle (Fig. XIV.).
When the disc has been set spinning a small curved piece of
metal is placed to touch the toe, and at once begins to slide round
it,
first the side (a) in the figure, and then the side (b),
the motion continuing backwards and forwards till the top comes to
rest.
The fact is that the toe is magnetic, and this being the case it is
easy
to see that the rolling of the toe on the side of the metal produces
the motion.
From the book
An Elementary Treatment of the Theory of
Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion.
By Harold Crabtree M.A.
Formerly Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Assistant Master at Charterhouse
Longmans, Green and Co. 1923
First Edition 1909
Second Edition 1914
New Impression 1923
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Big Bertha Thing fact
Anything but a fact, changes the face of twentieth century science.
1. No iron moons and planetary cores.
2. No red shift measure of speed.
3. No Patrick Moore star at 95% the speed of light.
4. Muons arrive on earth.
5. Relativity is like an imaginary number; useful but not real.
6. Einstein-Haas gives a field strength 1/10000th the electric field.
7. Wave particle duality is a field effect.
8. Schroedinger is an approximation.
Who has the wit to check the fact?
Tony Lance
tony...@bigberthathing.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tony Lance <jude...@bigberthathing.co.uk>
Date: Jan 25 2007, 2:17 pm
Subject: Big Bertha Thing tactics
To: sci.chem
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24 February 1998 18:22:42
OUSA Astronomy Item
From: Frank Hollis
Subject: Re(2): Big Bertha Thing positron
To: OUSA Astronomy Caroline Walcot,oufcnt2.open.ac.uk writes:
I don't see what pics of a positron particle (??) have to do with a
conference on
Astronomy, which is basically stargazing and astrophysics and mainly
optics.
Surely all this Big Bertha stuff should be diverted to a physics
conference such as S271?
cheers
Caroline
Or even better, the conference that was specifically set up for
exactly this material,
moderated by Spammer in Chief - Tony Lance.
Frank