The Water Clockcheck availability

'The boys drop their trousers and pee, missing the loo', Tim Hunkin.

Made in three weeks in 1998 by Tim Hunkin and Will Jackson, to an impossibly tight budget, the Water Clock was designed as a feature about water recycling, sponsored by Thames Water. The water is pumped up to the top of the clock from the pond and it was originally this water than then powered the cheeky antics that happen on the half hour. The hands and pendulum are now powered electrically. All the copper on the clock comes from old hot water cylinders.

Try the Quantum Tunnelling Telescope. This telescope sponsored by the European Onion! demonstrates the latest advances in particle physics and quantum dynamics focussing on time and space to bring you everything that could possibly happen in the North Sea... Tony Blair and George Bush on a jet ski, nuclear explosions and singing mermaids!

Visit Tim Hunkin's website for more information.

The idea for the telescope came from Stephen Bournes, the pier owner. He couldn’t understand why people bothered to use the ordinary telescope as there is usually so little to look at out to sea. He asked Tim to make it more interesting. Tim realised he could fill the space under the platform with models, with a periscope to view them. Moving the telescope would also move the periscope so the models would look fixed in space. Genius!