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For today's Macro Monday theme "Inheritance" My great grandfather's clock which sits on top of the bookshelf. I'm told it's quite loud and only works when it's lying down, so it hasn't been wound up in about 30 years.
A working ball clock built out of LEGO. I had one of these bad boys growing up, and despite the colossal noise it made I thought it was super cool. I finally got around to building a version out of LEGO.
I actually runs surprisingly well, and the LEGO version is much less noisy than the real thing.
January 2013
Scratching a photography itch I have had for a long time, I finally managed to get chance to visit 'Mini Big Ben' nestled in the heart of the Worcestershire countryside.
3 am start with a 40 min drive and hike up a hill whilst being subjected to a base night time low of 15c made the going pretty tough.
Taken as the light of the rising sun streamed through the valley, lighting up the clock tower and the tree tops shortly after.
The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]), is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still operating. (Wikipedia)
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A city of clock towers if there ever was one. I thought at first I could navigate using them as landmarks, until I found one too many.
Este díptico forma parte de unos de los planos de una secuencia que he hecho para un trabajo de medios audiovisuales.
Os dejo aqui el enlace del video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GPDNJ316WE
Es un montaje rítmico con un total de 1337 planos.
The famous astronomical clock @ Strasbourg in the Notre Dame cathedral there. Daily shows are made of it in operation. This & the close up of the base section were taken in extremely dark conditions using the hand held night shot facility on my old FZ150.
A rather decrepit looking clock on the front of the long-closed Marks and Spencer shop in Kirkcaldy. There are a number of examples of these clocks to be found across the UK.
It doesn't come out clearly via flickr's compression, but the two clocks are 5 minutes apart. Austria. Below Vienna.
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Canon EOS 6D - f/5.6 - 1/100sec - 85mm - ISO 6400
- Ansonia Clock Co., "Regulator A, Calendar", 8-day time and strike calendar wall clock
Height 32 inches.
- The Ansonia Clock Company was one of the major 19th century American clock manufacturers. It produced millions of clocks in the period between 1850, its year of incorporation, and 1929, the year the company went into receivership and sold its remaining assets to Soviet Russia.
- more info here:
www.antiqueansoniaclocks.com/ansonia-clock-history.php
- During the years 1879 to 1883 the factory moved from Ansonia, Connecticut, to Brooklyn, New York. During this transitional period clocks were made at both locations and both appear on the label inside of the clock. This one has such label.
Der Speicher am Mittellandkanal in Bad Essen wurde im Jahr 1938 erbaut und ca. 1940 fertiggestellt. Entsprechend steht er dort seit 80 Jahren und bildet eine weithin sichtbare Landmarke im Wittlager Land und besonders in der heutigen Gemeinde Bad Essen. Er lag schon vor 80 Jahren verkehrsgünstig am Mittellandkanal, an der Bahnstrecke zwischen Preußisch Oldendorf und Bohmte sowie an der „Fernstraße“ zwischen Osnabrück und Minden, die bis heute Bestand und Bedeutung haben.
Das Jahr 1938 ist nicht zufällig das Baujahr des Speichers, bereitete das NS-Regime schon seit Jahren eine von ihm gewollte Neuordnung Europas im Zuge eines europaweiten Krieges vor, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg mündete und unsere Geschichte bis heute maßgeblich beeinflusst hat. Dabei galt es, die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit Grundnahrungsmitteln „bombensicher“ sicher zu stellen.
Erinnerungen an den Speicher:
„Der 10 Stockwerke hohe Speicher wurde 1938 von Ludwig Hardach gebaut. Wieviel Staatlicher Rückhalt dahinter steckte, kann ich nicht sagen.“
(Zitat aus „Lebenswege durch die Heimat und 100 Jahre Geschichte“ von Elly Wübbeler)
„Mein Mann erzählte, dass beim Umschwung 1945 die Engländer den Speicher sprengen wollen. Da habe sich der Erbauer Hardach auf die Rampe gesetzt und sich strikt geweigert, den Platz u verlassen. „ Nur über meine Leiche!“, habe er kundgetan, und die Soldaten, die ihn wegtragen wollten, seinerseits bedroht. Der Erbauer hat derzeit sein Leben riskiert, um den einmaligen Bau zu erhalten.
Mein späterer Mann hat damals mit dem Fahrrad in 20 l-Kannen Reis aus dem Speicher geholt, von dem seine Mutter täglich im großen Kessel Milchreis kochte und mit gekochten Eiern an Männer verteilte, die sich im Osten von der Wehrmacht abgesetzt hatten, um zu Fuß im Schutz der Wälder nach Haus zukommen. Ihre Uniformen hatten sie ausgezogen, es gab genug private Kleidung, deren Besitzer im Krieg ihr Leben ließen, und die hiesigen Leute waren hilfsbereit. Da ist so mancher Soldat dem sinnlosen Kampf entflohen, um zu Fuß ins Ruhrgebiet zu gelangen, unter anderem mit Hilfe aus dem Speicher.“ (nach: „Lebenswege durch die Heimat und 100 Jahre Geschichte“ von Elly Wübbeler)
Mehr Infos: speicher-badessen.de/
Video youtu.be/e4fBYbn4FaQ
The Astronomical Clock, which is on one side of the Old Town Hall Tower, dates from the 15th century.
To fully appreciate the clock's intricate construction, join the crowd in front of the tower to watch the procession of the Twelve Apostles: on the hour, every hour, a small trap door opens and Christ marches out ahead of his disciples, while the skeleton of death tolls the bell to a defiant statue of a Turk.
The skeleton or a grim reaper features an hourglass, which rotates as a symbol of measuring lifetime. Ringing the bell and a consistent swinging reminds all of the inevitable fate. The figure of the death has been the oldest part of the figural decoration of the clock since the late 15th century..
Clock of the former ‘Royal Oak Benefit Society’ founded in 1837 as a ‘friendly society’ - latterly based in John Street, London
Using my Christmas lights draped over my wall clock in the spare room. Just trying something different with my photography until the dark nights have pulled out. For this image the only light in the room is from the white Xmas lights and a little fill-in light from my phone on the face of the clock. The wallpaper is homage to my love of books. I have hundreds of books - although I need to find time to read them all and not just look at them on the shelves.
This Lego clock tower modular is inspired by Prague Astronomical Clock in Prague, Czech Republic. Besides the clock tower there are also three small houses. Total width of all buildings is 48 studs and about 4100 bricks were used. Computer rendering but only existing bricks were used.
The clock tower at the site of the Enka plant, the tower is all that is left of a plant that one time employed over 5,000 workers.
The astronomical clock of Besançon is housed in Besançon Cathedral. Besançon's present astronomical clock, made in 1860 by Auguste-Lucien Vérité fr:Auguste-Lucien Vérité of Beauvais to replace an earlier and unsatisfactory one made by Bernardin in the 1850s, differs from those in Strasbourg, Lyon and Beauvais. The clock is meant to express the theological concept that each second of the day the Resurrection of Christ transforms the existence of man and of the world.
The clock stands 5.8 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, and has 30,000 mechanical parts. It sits in its own room in the clocktower. Verite's coat of arms, those of Cardinal Mathieu, and of the cathedral appear on the front of the clock.
Seventy dials provide 122 indications. These include the seconds, hours, days and years. The clock is a perpetual one that can register up to 10,000 years, including adjustments for leap year cycles. The clock also indicates the times of sunrise and sunset.
Twenty-one automated figures either ring the quarter-hour and the hour, or perform the Resurrection of Christ at noon, and his burial at 3 pm.
The clock also has animated pictures of seven different French harbours and indicates the hours and height of the tides there on dials. One of the harbours is Saint-Pierre, Martinique; another is Cayenne, French Guiana. There is an eighth animated picture, this one of Saint Helena, where the former emperor Napoleon died in exile.
An orrery (planetarium) is part of the clock and it shows the motions and orbits of the planets. The planetary motions are congruent with those of the actual planets so that the planetarium reproduces eclipses as they occur.
The central part of the main body of the clock has 12 dials for parts of the civil calendar, and five for the liturgical calendars The dials showing the civil calendar show the month, date, day, the solar element that gave its name to the day of the week (e.g., the sun for Sunday), the season, the sign of the Zodiac, the length of the day, the length of the night, the seconds, and the times for sunrise and sunset. One dial gives the date of Easter, and this acts as the driver for dials that present the date for five key days of the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.
Two columns have 10 dials each. The bottom eight dials show the time in different major cities around the world, including New York and San Francisco, though without adjustment for daylight savings time. The two top dials on the left column show the number of solar and lunar eclipses in the current year. The two dials on the right column show the leap years and leap centuries. The hand on the leap century dial moved for the first time in 2000; it will move for the second time in 2400.
A pyramidal arrangement of figures caps the clock. The 12 apostles form the base; two different apostles come out each hour to strike the hour. Also, every hour the three virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity, move, with Faith showing the chalice to Charity and Hope, which stand to her right and left. Above them the statues of the archangels Michael and Gabriel strike the quarter-hours.
At the top of the clock, at midday, Christ arises from his tomb, and at the 3p.m. he returns to it. When he arises, Mary, his mother and Queen of the world, raises her sceptre; she lowers it when he returns to his tomb.
Through a system of universal joints extending some 100 meters, the clock drives four dials that sit on the four sides of the cathedral's tower, thus providing the time of day to the city. A fifth dial is inside the cathedral. The outside dials also show, respectively, the season, the day of the week, and the month of the year. Cables from the clock activate bells in the tower that sound the quarter hour and the hour.
Eleven different descending weights drive the clock. Three of the weights need to be reset each day.
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The astronomical clock of Besançon is housed in Besançon Cathedral. Besançon's present astronomical clock, made in 1860 by Auguste-Lucien Vérité fr:Auguste-Lucien Vérité of Beauvais to replace an earlier and unsatisfactory one made by Bernardin in the 1850s, differs from those in Strasbourg, Lyon and Beauvais. The clock is meant to express the theological concept that each second of the day the Resurrection of Christ transforms the existence of man and of the world.
The clock stands 5.8 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, and has 30,000 mechanical parts. It sits in its own room in the clocktower. Verite's coat of arms, those of Cardinal Mathieu, and of the cathedral appear on the front of the clock.
Seventy dials provide 122 indications. These include the seconds, hours, days and years. The clock is a perpetual one that can register up to 10,000 years, including adjustments for leap year cycles. The clock also indicates the times of sunrise and sunset.
Twenty-one automated figures either ring the quarter-hour and the hour, or perform the Resurrection of Christ at noon, and his burial at 3 pm.
The clock also has animated pictures of seven different French harbours and indicates the hours and height of the tides there on dials. One of the harbours is Saint-Pierre, Martinique; another is Cayenne, French Guiana. There is an eighth animated picture, this one of Saint Helena, where the former emperor Napoleon died in exile.
An orrery (planetarium) is part of the clock and it shows the motions and orbits of the planets. The planetary motions are congruent with those of the actual planets so that the planetarium reproduces eclipses as they occur.
The central part of the main body of the clock has 12 dials for parts of the civil calendar, and five for the liturgical calendars The dials showing the civil calendar show the month, date, day, the solar element that gave its name to the day of the week (e.g., the sun for Sunday), the season, the sign of the Zodiac, the length of the day, the length of the night, the seconds, and the times for sunrise and sunset. One dial gives the date of Easter, and this acts as the driver for dials that present the date for five key days of the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.
Two columns have 10 dials each. The bottom eight dials show the time in different major cities around the world, including New York and San Francisco, though without adjustment for daylight savings time. The two top dials on the left column show the number of solar and lunar eclipses in the current year. The two dials on the right column show the leap years and leap centuries. The hand on the leap century dial moved for the first time in 2000; it will move for the second time in 2400.
A pyramidal arrangement of figures caps the clock. The 12 apostles form the base; two different apostles come out each hour to strike the hour. Also, every hour the three virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity, move, with Faith showing the chalice to Charity and Hope, which stand to her right and left. Above them the statues of the archangels Michael and Gabriel strike the quarter-hours.
At the top of the clock, at midday, Christ arises from his tomb, and at the 3p.m. he returns to it. When he arises, Mary, his mother and Queen of the world, raises her sceptre; she lowers it when he returns to his tomb.
Through a system of universal joints extending some 100 meters, the clock drives four dials that sit on the four sides of the cathedral's tower, thus providing the time of day to the city. A fifth dial is inside the cathedral. The outside dials also show, respectively, the season, the day of the week, and the month of the year. Cables from the clock activate bells in the tower that sound the quarter hour and the hour.
Eleven different descending weights drive the clock. Three of the weights need to be reset each day.