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Re: The development of bubble sextants
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2009 Aug 18, 10:42 -0700
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From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2009 Aug 18, 10:42 -0700
George: I simply assumed you would look up the rest of the patent yourself - which you did. So why attach it? I also assume you read it. His goal, you will agree, was to create a mechanical structure with a very low proper frequency and a well chosen damping. Simply, he anticipated results of modern signal theory. A practical example of a similar concept is the seismometer which of course has been implemented many times. It, too, is a lowpass filter just used differently! I claim, the idea, the concept, the line of thought of this patent is correct. Look, Charles Babbage' s invention was much more complicated than this and he could not implement it in his times. We found better means. And now, we both use the descendant of his idea at this very moment - because the idea was right. I am not an ME, but I agree with you about the complexity of the inventor's proposed implementation. But that alone means nothing in the long run. BTW: Who was Vannevar Bush? Regards --- On Tue, 8/18/09, George Huxtable <george@hux.me.uk> wrote:
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