Building an Impossible Clock (theatlantic.com)

Previous discussion (april 2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402297

But for the work of 1 man - Martin Burgess, this is yet another marvel of old technology that may have been lost forever, along with Greek Fire, Roman Concrete, Damascus Steel and many others.

> As the name suggests, the language is dense and convoluted. The contemporary British clockmaker George Daniels has called the text “rubbish”; Rupert Gould, the author of the biography Burgess read, described it as “gibberish.”

This is the mark of a strong "right-brainer": completely inspired but struggling to communicate it.

See also: a film about Harrison, and his designs for a sea-voyage-proof clock.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192263/

(I enjoyed the film many years ago, and I can't recall what, if anything, it has in the way of technical details.)