3D printing gets to heart of 17th-century gadget Birmingham City University Universities - Electronics Research

3D printing gets to heart of 17th-century gadget Birmingham City University Universities - Electronics Research

July 24, 2013

Researchers from Birmingham City University have scanned items such as a precious 17th-century watch in exquisite detail, and recreated them using a 3D printer. Visitors to the Museum of London will be able to handle copies of the items, something that should be of particular benefit to visually impaired people.

The watch is part of a trove of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery found in a London cellar by builders in 1912. It is known as the Ferlite watch, after the jeweller who made it around 1600.

The researchers are also planning to reconstruct replicas which will help them understand the watch’s surprisingly advanced features. It had both calendar and alarm functions and was decorated with an elegant scrolling foliage design alongside floral motifs and a sunburst pattern. The watch is so innovative, researchers are calling it “the iPod of its day”.

“We think of our own time as one of impressive technological advances, but we must look at the Elizabethan and Jacobean age as being just as advanced in some ways,” said Ann-Marie Carey, who worked on the project. “We fear some of these 400-year-old processes may now be lost to us.”

To reveal details of the watch’s construction, the team removed the remaining enamel on the surface from their 3D model to show what the metal component looked like prior to being enamelled, says Keith Adcock, who also contributed to the work. “We have effectively used new technology to capture a ‘moment in time’ during the watch’s original making process.”

Priceless gold and jewelled artefacts from the so-called Cheapside Hoard, going on display at the Museum of London in October. The Museum of London will be showcasing as much of the hoard as it can muster. The Ferlite watch is featured 36 seconds in to this video preview of the event.

Paul Marks, New Scientist

(Image top: Birmingham City University, 

Image bottom: Museum of London)

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