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Published: 2007-02-28 16:23:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 16350; Favourites: 170; Downloads: 0
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This shot represents over 100 years of technology. For its day, the watch made by Waltham in the late 1800,s was highly accurate. Today it still runs with an accuracy that rivals some digital watches.The background is a computer card, which also requires timing to function. However, while the watch meaures time in seconds, the card measures it in nano-SECONDS.
Technology has brought us many things. There have been many changes and improvements, but sometimes, old technology is as functional and far more beautiful than the new.
published by NSB Games on Hull Breach "Electronic Countermeasures" Card [link]
Published on front Cover of "The Full Bench" [link]
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thank you. That for me is the challenge, keeping detail with such short DOF and working distances.
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I <3 technology!
and this one is fantastic!
x kisses x
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thank you.....
catches 
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thanks for the comment and the
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really, really nice composition.
I also like this concept a whole lot.
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thank you, I appredciate your opinion.
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its amazing how much man has advanced in 100 years-which when you think about it is not that long a time-if you see past your own little existence you see how little a time 100 years really is,
Great shot my friend,
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I agree.
yet from another perspective, man has made huge strides compared to the past centries. For instance in the last 100 years, pennicilin was invented, a man went to the moon, computers were invented, cars became common. So from one perspective lots has happened more than in any past centry. yet, I kind of makes me wonder what is ahead?
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what it ahead? allot of happiness, and Allot of heart ache, theres allot in store for mankind.
deep heh? lol
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I like your concept...the old ones do seem to be more pleasing to the eye.....
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thanks for your comment, it is appreciated.
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very nice image, do you mind if I use it as my desktop wallpaper? nicely done
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This old watch looks so noble! I like this shot and your great comment!
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thank you for your comment and the 
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Oooo, gorgeous. I love the little gears in the watch. Each one is so carefully constructed. Bravo.
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yes I too love this old technology. It had a beauty and pride in craftmanship that I fear has been lost.
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I think it has not yet been lost, but you must look much harder for it now... and when you find it, the price is much higher proportionally than it was when craftmanship was of value to society as a whole.
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I tend to agree with you. Craftsmanship has mostly been lost, but it still can be found if one looks hard enough. It is unfortunate that our values have changed.
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Yes. I think this is a prime example of us not being able to "have our cake and eat it, too." We gave up our love of craftmanship for the age of technology and efficiency. We wanted cheap over one-of-a-kind and quantity at the loss of quality. This is why I like to take photos of run-down buildings and why I frequent antique stores. I think that objects made more recently, despite their efficiency and usefulness, fail in their consistancy. I'd rather have a necklace that's a little tarnished than one that I might see on someone else three times a day.
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maybe this is why many people are so interested in things of the past, there is a longing for constancy, and craftsmanship offered that?
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Probably. I think, also, in a way, people no longer are sure of their places in this world. We abandoned the thoughts of having a 'calling' in life, and we have since ceased doing exactly what our parents did, for the most part. In that way, too, people really have no predetermined role to play, so they want to know how we got this way--and marvel at how things were once done. Junxtapositioned with how things are today, older objects and such are amusing, interesting, and different. Craftmanship is part of it for some people, but these elements are essential to a lot of the people who seek the past.
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I like your perspectives on this. I wonder if this sense of loss of "place" in the world is also why there is a searching for the spiritual elements?
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Thanks! It could be. People have a lot of reasons for spirituality, even more than for investigating the past.
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very interesting point 
well done, perfect as usual
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Well NOW I am actually impresssed with myself....*slaps himself quickly so that deflation of head ceases*
I know very little about circuit boards. (I should have included an old tube in the picture *slaps himself again for not thinking the concept through well enough*)
But if I got the time keeping chip in the image, believe me that was either luck or blessing. I pick the latter.
Thanks a lot for your comment. It is a gift of your time that you have given and i appreciate it.
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lol yea its the little black one at the top sitting in the brown clip 
you are more than welcome mate
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yes I knew it was a graphics card, and that it was old. I stole it from my eldest son's room. He is not here, but his room IS A COMPUTER...in that he has built half a dozen or so over the years and his room is a graveyard for old parts. I was not picky, I tried to find a CPU, failed and took that. (I may have to confess my transgression whan he gets home).
Actually I studies electronice when I was young. I wanted to be a tech....At ione time I could draw a 5 tube radion with all the parts, capacitors, resisitors, tubes, the whole mess from memory. Boy, and we thought we knew something. Transistors were just coming onto the public market. (Oh...I feel old now...lol)
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lol sounds like my room
haha, tubes where already out by the time i became self aware lol
there are still a few things that use tubes lol... one or two things
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The
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thanks any ways..lol.
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cool, the comment is nice and great, and the photo...amazing
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thank you for your contribution.
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It makes me think of "Movements in Technology" as an alternate reality. Hard to imagine a time when a pocket watch was considered a highly guarded military secret, issued only to naval officers for navigation. Great imagination executed thru imagery. Thanks!
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I was not aware of the military thing, but it does not surprise me. I will put it into the bag of things I have learned along with "Freezing the Balls off Brass Monkeys" and the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea".
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If you get a chance, an excellent short read is Dava Sobel's "Longitude". Given your creative imagination and talent for still life you may find it a great source for inspiration. It's about how the clock was adapted and perfected to solve one of the greatest navigational hurdles of modern time. So much I never knew. But now you leave me needing to research the "Devil and the Deep Blue Sea". The "Brass Monkey" is always a great "did you know" to pull out in those stuffy client meetings to make the business women blush.
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thank you. If I have opportunity I shall check into the book.
The "Devil" is the keel. The deep blue see...well, it is what it is. When the keel leaked and needed a fix, someone put on a rope, they heeled over the vessel, and he went for a walk.....hoping that the ship remained heeled over....if not...he got caught.
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nice photo and great description
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thanks for the comment and visit.
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Fascinating description; complements the photograph very well. Clockwork juxtaposed against integrated circuits... Nice.
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