I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 585 - 507: Mimetic Interference Fringes, A Great Victory for Particle Theory

But what was different was that the hourglass made by wizards contained a special type of sand imbued with magic power called Time Sand.

This thing possessed two important characteristics.

The first was that in a specific hourglass, it would fall at a rate of ten grains per second, and the second was that it was particularly noticeable under a wizard’s unique spiritual perception.

This meant that wizards only needed to touch the hourglass to know through spiritual power how much sand remained, and their computing power could determine the current time in a very short period.

The accuracy could reach about 0.01 seconds.

Sean’s mechanical pendulum clock used the principle of isochronism.

The so-called pendulum is a device that can produce reciprocating swinging—a small ball placed at one end of a fine string suspended from the ceiling constitutes a pendulum.

Once an initial force is applied, under the influence of gravity, the ball below begins to swing back and forth.

Moreover, according to the law he discovered, the time it took for the ball to swing back and forth depended only on the length of the pendulum’s arc and was not affected by the magnitude of the swing. This stability became the basis for measuring time…

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Sean dismantled the entire pendulum clock, pointing to the gears, escapement, mainspring, and balance spring inside, explaining in detail how it worked.

In short, the force of the pendulum drove the gears, and one full turn represented one minute!

After listening to Sean’s description, Lynn realized this was a rather primitive pendulum clock, likely because it had just been developed, and its structure was very rudimentary.

After casually pointing out several areas for improvement, Lynn smiled again and spoke, “In my view, why not simply increase the number of gears inside the dial to three? Each rotation of the small gear drives the middle gear to move a quarter, and one full rotation of the middle gear drives the large gear to move a quarter. I would call them the second wheel, minute wheel, and hour wheel!”

Sean paused, his face showing surprise, quickly understanding the benefits of this. This way, there was no need to specifically calculate how many circles the dial had turned—one could easily see what minute and second it was.

“Thank you for your proposal, Chairman Lynn, I didn’t expect you to have such a profound mastery in alchemy,” Sean said, bowing slightly in thanks.

Previously, within the empire, all he had heard about was how outstanding this Star of Magic was in magical research, and now it seemed he was truly talented in all fields.

“In fact, Chairman Lynn is the most skilled wizard in alchemy in the entire magic community. My title as a Magic Creator has long been undeserved,” said Vittorio, who was sitting at the judging panel, quite embarrassingly.

Lynn, who had developed airships, war machines, magic trains, and steel battleships within a few short years, truly fit the title of Magic Creator more aptly.

His own development of the Sun Flame Cannon was indeed sharp, but it was just picking up others’ ideas, merely using alchemical methods to recreate the “Doomsday—Atomic Breath.”

“Actually, my skills in alchemy are quite ordinary, at most, I have some insights in engineering,” Lynn said, shaking his head with a smile, well aware that his advantage lay merely in his broad knowledge.

Even without his reminders, Sean would have been able to completely perfect it through repeated improvements.

Lynn quickly moved on from the topic and began discussing with Harrov and others whether they should nominate Sean for the Morning Star Medal.

They were all quite optimistic about this new method of timekeeping.

Its accuracy was certainly not as high as the magic clock, but its greatest value lay in that it did not require magic power, meaning even ordinary civilians could use it, and its structure was not complex, holding great potential for popularization.

This was a true exemplar of using gravitational potential energy, much more reliable than those so-called perpetual motion machines.

Lynn nodded in agreement; this pendulum clock, in his view, had deeper significance than its function, representing an innovation in timekeeping devices.

After gradually shifting research focus to the microscopic domain, the accuracy of just 0.1 second from the magic hourglass seemed a bit inadequate, necessitating precision down to the thousandth or even ten-thousandth of a second.

The wizard named Sean might just be the right researcher to develop new types of timekeepers.