Maker Faire Bay Area 2009

The Clock of the Long Now

Long Now's 10,000 Year Clock is a monument to long-term thinking. See one of the first full-sized component prototypes of the Clock: an 8-foot diameter Geneva wheel mechanism that is part of the bell ringing system.

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About the Maker(s)

Danielle Engelman

The Long Now Foundation

The Clock engineering team is led by Danny Hillis, one of the founders of Long Now with additional design and project management by Alexander Rose; the other engineering team members are Paolo Salvagione, Greg Staples, Luke Khanlian and Jascha Little with Christopher Rand doing much of the machining and fabricating. The stone work is being led Stuart Kendall and Jason Clauson.

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