Da Vinci Flying Pendulum Clock
Product Code: 18157

Description

A SNAP TOGETHER model of DaVinci's Flying Pendulum Clock

Easy to build
Complete step-by-step Instructions
No glue, no paint, no tools needed
Beautifully detailed
Learn, enjoy the operation, collect the series

Not your ordinary educational models, the da Vinci kits are based
on the early designs of Leonardo da Vinci. The Flying Pendulum
Clock needs no glue, paint or battery to finish and operate. Easy
to build, it delivers a learning experience during assembly, and
serves as entertainment when watching the completed timepiece
operate. Da Vinci was fascinated by how timepieces operate. Based
on one of his sketches, it uses the laws of motion and a
vertical “flying” pendulum escapement to keep accurate time.
The pendulum's weights, in a bucket suspended from a crane-style
arm, act as the clock's power source. The weights propel the
pendulum from vertical post to vertical post. As it “flies” it
turns precision gears which in turn keep time. To speed up or
slow the clock, adjust the weight-balance of the pendulum by
adding or removing weights.


Flying Pendulum Clock is based on a da Vinci sketch
No glue, paint or battery needed to build and operate
Uses laws of motion and a “flying” vertical pendulum design to
keep time
Weights act as the power source. Clock speed is controlled by
adding or reducing weight
Pendulum moves precision gears which keep time
Easy to follow instructions. Fun to build. Entertaining to watch
it operate.
An earlier da Vinci clock design is among Academy's best selling
educational kits… this one promises to deliver equal popularity