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A surgeon for time, building galaxies of gears smaller than your doubts about manual labor.
means A person who makes, repairs, and adjusts watches and clocks, working with the tiny gears and springs that keep time.
from A plain English compound: 'watch' plus 'maker.' The 'watch' part traces to Old English 'wæcce,' meaning a wakeful vigil or a period of staying awake — the same root behind 'wake' and the night 'watches' kept by guards. The portable timepiece took the name because, like a sentry, it kept track through the hours; 'maker' is simply one who makes. So a watchmaker is, quite literally, a maker of little instruments for keeping vigil over time.
- Tiny tolerances
- Parts adjusted to fractions of a human hair
- Deity argument
- Paley used one to prove God exists
- Marine prize
- Harrison's sea clock won a king's fortune
- Steady hands
- Heartbeat can blur work; some hold breath
- Lever escapement
- That tick is energy released in tiny bites
john harrison — english clockmaker who solved the longitude problem with marine chronometers in the 1700s
abraham-louis breguet — swiss-french watchmaker who invented the tourbillon in 1795
george daniels — british horologist who created the co-axial escapement in 1974