The Art of Being Drunk
2017, 20 pages, ill
Model of the Abraham Tappy drunken fusee made by Piet Andreissen (© P. Andriessen).
Ordinary fusees can only be wound by turning the fusee arbor anti-clockwise. Drunken fusees are fusees that can be wound by turning the fusee arbor either clockwise or anti-clockwise. They are more curiosities than useful, but interesting none the less.
This article explains how drunken fusees work. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file:
Illustration: Model of the Abraham Tappy drunken fusee made by Piet Andreissen (© P. Andriessen).