<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a228b72-8b05-4b33-80f0-74e3b7004234/B9E26B54-C491-40F1-BB0D-22A2DC8BEB8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/burningman_fire/breed.html" href="http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/burningman_fire/breed.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.leonardo.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/burningman_fire/breed.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.leonardo.info/img/A1683B55-8995-4697-8D63-0B188A1D0773" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/burningman_fire/breed.html"><DIV> Once, as a child, I visited the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. In a room devoted to clocks and clockwork, I was mesmerized by an erratically moving miniature tetherball: Beside a vertical 4-inch rod, a tiny ball hanging by a fine chain from a swinging arm was being flung in an arc. The ball and chain wound up around the rod, unwound, and then the ball was flung around again to wind up, unwind . . . </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/burningman_fire/breed.html"><DIV> One 19th-century novelty clock used such a tetherball, rather than a pendulum, to regulate its ticks. It wasn't particularly accurate, but it was unique and entertaining, and that's why a tetherball was in the Franklin Institute in 1957. In 1998, by then a confirmed Burner, I recalled my visit and thought, "Yes! Really big, and on fire. I have to build one." </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/burningman_fire/breed.html">The name came next---<EM>The Chaotick,</EM> for its erratic timekeeping. I put together a tabletop model with a bicycle-wheel hub for a pivot, a battery-powered toy's motor for power and a rubber band for a drive belt, but no flames.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B9E26B54-C491-40F1-BB0D-22A2DC8BEB8E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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