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by eviks 530 days ago
What technology wasn't invented by the time this clock was created??? And the design is bad, nothing clever about it, clocks can move their minutes hand to give the necessary indication
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What technology wasn't available in 1944 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock#Technology) compared to today? Quite a lot...
So name a single time tech and explain how the lack of it didn’t prevent other train station operators having clocks without jumping hands operating even before 1944? (not sure, but think that the minute timetable resolution was pretty universal)