大连GTG落下了帷幕，让我大喊一声，谢谢你们-

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......7**连的GTG落下了帷幕，大家兴趣盎然的余温未尽之时，7月31日在上海举行FPJ交流会又在紧锣密鼓筹集着。。。。。这使我回想起2008年5月中旬在新浪网的一帖子中明确的记载着钟表，最早是起源于我们中国而不是西欧。。。。这也同时证明着我们的国家上下五千年的历史文化的悠久和进化。。。。。机械钟表起源于中国(2008-05-07 00:02:46)
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The mechanical clock came from China.
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这句话真让人吃惊：机械钟表源于中国？怎么不知道呢？印象之中，电影电视里，西方的传教士把钟表作为礼物向中国的皇帝进贡，和珅还贪污了不少呢，没错吧？而且，故宫奉先殿里陈列着皇宫收藏的各式各样精美的钟表，琳琅满目，华丽多彩，其中不少来自英国、法国、瑞士、日本等国。想象中一道靓丽的风景便是，在皇宫的每个角落几乎都摆放着钟表，滴答、滴答的钟鸣声响彻整个紫禁城。
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8 Z2 E9 m* X# @: [! x2 U; T  l8 p带着Where did the mechanical clock came from?这个问题，问了身边的几位朋友，他们的回答都印证了我们固有的思维定势：机械钟表起源于欧洲。

The mechanical clock came from China这句话源于犬子的一本英语读物，是剑桥出版的啊！老外不会奉承中国人的，他们在骨子里就没有那么善良。于是，在大不列颠百科全书网站查到这样一个事实：The Chinese designed the very first mechanical clock in 700 A.D. 然后，还找到了以下的一些facts:

5 i2 K- {! o) T. W; BThe first European public clock that struck the hours was erected in Milan in 1335.

. z& B" {% D# k7 ^2 rThe oldest surviving clocks are in England (1386) and France (1389).
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The first domestic clocks appeared late in the 14th century.
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About 1500 Peter Henlein, a German locksmith, began to make the first portable timepieces, small clocks driven by a spring.

Christiaan Huygens invented pendulum clocks in 1656.
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% M1 i! B: C8 n$ DBig Ben, the great clock at Westminster in London, was installed in 1859 and is the standard for all accurate tower pendulum clocks.
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The most accurate mechanical timekeepers (within a few thousandths of a second per day) are clocks with short pendulums (about 39 in. [or 990 mm]).

In 1929 the vibration of a quartz crystal was first applied to timekeeping; the maximum error of an observatory quartz-crystal clock is only a few ten-thousandths of a second per day.

& L  K& t, o, N* O3 K. PThe first atomic clock went into operation in 1951. Atomic clocks, regulated by the natural periodic behaviour of a system of atoms (such as vibrations or emission of radiation), can have accuracies exceeding one billionth of a second per day, making them the most accurate clocks yet invented.
/ N; O9 T1 }1 o! C在敲打以上这些文字的时候，真为自己的无知而羞愧，也为中学的历史老师没有告诉我们这一点而遗憾；同时，也为这个伟大的发明源于中国而自豪！我们的祖先真了不起，给我们留下的东西那就让我们这一代表友们去继续发扬、光大吧！预祝7月31日在上海举行FPJ交流会圆满成功！。。。。。2010年7月25日。阿力神剑于长白山寓所