Bowitsch-Baltzar contact-clock

(Kontaktuhr nach Bowitsch-Baltzar)
Description: This is a weight-driven clock with the pendulum adjusted to cycles of 1 to 60 seconds. The completion of the time leads to the breaking of a closed sliding bow (Schleife) contact. (Expanded caption Copyright 1998, Edward J. Haupt)
(Source: Langendorff (1893). Physiological Graphik, p. 124)
Source of illustration: Zimmermann, E. (1903). XVIII. Preis- Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (p. 52). Leipzig: Eduard Zimmermann.

DESCRIPTORS:
Type: component, timing
Stimulus: N/A
System: N/A
Output: total time, contact closure

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