Section 05 · 5 entries
After Mechanics
The counter stops being mechanical and the argument stays the same: keep a resonator in motion, count what it does, and do not disturb it while counting.
Entries in this section
- A Crystal That CountsA quartz oscillator runs at tens of thousands of cycles per second and costs almost nothing, which ended the argument commercially even where mechanics survived culturally.
- Quartz Has a Temperature Problem TooThe parabola, and how a compensated movement corrects for it.
- Counting an AtomWhat an atomic standard actually measures and why the second is defined that way.
- Getting the Time From Somewhere ElseRadio and network synchronisation — a clock that no longer needs to keep time, only to receive it.
- Why Mechanical Survived AnywayOnce accuracy stopped being the argument, what was left as the reason to make them.