Making while brown: Texas schoolchild arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

Mechanics, too. I learned respect for the wound up springs in mechanical clocks, the hard way (ouch, the cogwheels can bite into fingers rather fast when you release the top plate, one of the smaller wheels jumps out, and the big ones can spin freely), in a single-digit age.

Mechanics is pretty important. Tends to be neglected in the electronic age.

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