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  • Three Electrostatic Motors Almost Make This Pricey Watch Worth It

    Three Electrostatic Motors Almost Make This Pricey Watch Worth It

    The 1960s were an interstitial time when it came to technology. Not quite computerised, the world hovered between the mechanical and the digital, computers clacking out commands onto old teletypes while Nixie tubes – essentially glowing wires in a vacuum – ran the countdowns for rickety spacecraft that had more in common with Magellan than…