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Instrumentation is not something you wake up one day and think I will get involved with it, but sensors, transducers, computer models and mathematical techniques within every produce we care to mention. From the process control of tins, to the space program, we need instruments to measure and systems to take that information in and process it and then make the necessary adjustments.
Its important that we understand in society what systems support it. The key ones being water, energy and telecommunications. The work we do in this area offers an independent way forward.
So what’s this got to do with clocks? More specifically the importance of the pendulum, or any oscillator that chops time up into discrete periods? All dynamic measurement need a time reference, a clock. By studying early instrumentation, simple ,elegant and a joy to see, we can show what makes up a system and the concept of an instrument.
The job we have is making sure the next generation understand the importance of instrumentation, we do this in a novel way, using the simplicity of the past to transfer system skills, so they can be applied to current technology and new inventions.
The next giant step forward, is the relationship between local time and synchronicity, that is how we synchronise events. This is critical in system thinking.
We have patents for the development of low cost sensors, that allows us to provide kits and the such for project work at a fraction of the price. We relate these to sport science to robotics. So if you are a ‘clocky’ and wonder why onamission covers these area’s its because the path, of the development of the pendulum clock, leads straight into current technology.
If you have time you have ‘awareness’ , if you can measure, you can quantify, if you have a model you can predict and with feedback control. The foundation of this is time itself.
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