Re: [time-nuts] Learning technology by taking the clock, apart...

2005-07-30 Thread Glenn Tracy
Poul and Chuck: I've been reading your thread with great interest and share your feelings about taking the clock apart. "Walk the walk" I think sums it up pretty well. Growing up where I did, my father encouraged me to take things apart and try to fix them. I am extremely grateful to him for

Re: [time-nuts] Learning technology by taking the clock apart...

2005-07-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I think we are on the same page, moduls some minor differences which can easily be explained by some delta-T and delta-X: I took apart old tube televisions in Denmark in the 1970ies. >How can you teach what you don't know? I'd love to teach an elementary school >science course, I 'd gladly take

Re: [time-nuts] Learning technology by taking the clock apart...

2005-07-29 Thread Chuck Harris
Hi Poul, Finally, my network access is back! Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Harris writes: [I split off this topic, it's interesting in its own right I think] I must be very unusual, I fix modern TV's, radios, and other consumer electronics doo-dads.It isn

[time-nuts] Learning technology by taking the clock apart...

2005-07-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Harris writes: [I split off this topic, it's interesting in its own right I think] >> It may not be their fault. Have you tried taking modern toys apart >> ? Or a radio ? A TV-set ? There is nothing in there our kids can >> learn anything from :-( > >I mu