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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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_clock_(Besançon)
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.
There is so much history and interesting facts about this 600 year old clock, that I would do a disservice attempting to describe it here.
I invite you to look up facts about this amazing clock and read for yourself and be amazed.
Also, note the tile sidewalk - many of Old Prague's sidewalk are made of designs of these stones.
The principle decoration of the Anver Central Railway station in Antwerp, Belgium. This magnificent railway station has been modernised and extended but they retained much of the decoration and fine workmanship. This is the central facade above the stairs and escalators.
The Clock Tower is a landmark in Hong Kong. It is located on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is the only remnant of the original site of the former Kowloon Station on the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Officially named Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower, it is usually referred to as the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower.
La estanterÃa, puesta del revés, sirve de jaula para conejitos traviesos. Aunque Clock daba tanta penita ahà colgado que lo perdoné enseguida ^ ^U
This building is currently a parking lot. In 1937 it had the Chicago Hotel upstairs, as well as 3 cafes (one named Angelo Cafe on the corner) and a barber on the first floor, along with jeweler O. Kimura.
The clock on the right side of the photograph was owned by Otomatsu Kimura. This is one of four confirmed sightings of this clock. It was cataloged in a 1924 inventory of clocks, and is seen in a photo taken i late 1942, an undated (1940s or 1950s) image and a 1950 view. Because there is no street use permit for its installation, I believe it was installed prior to 1917.
According to his illegal internment file, Otomatsu was born in Japan in 1874 and arrived in the US in 1903. Marriage records show that he married Suwa Yamamoto in 1907, who was born in Shiga prefecture just like him. She immigrated to the US in 1907 and her signature was in Japanese on the certificate, hints that they had an arranged marriage. He was already 43. They had two sons and a daughter over the next five years.
In the 1910 census he already listed his profession as a retail jeweler. Newspaper articles later described him as a pawnbroker, so he sold at least some used good. A 1940 immigration document typewritten "jeweler" was overwritten with "watch maker" as his profession.
That same year he paid for an elaborate entry in the city directory, saying: "Expert watchmaker, all repair work guaranteed, 21 years of dependable service at this location, 510 Jackson near 5th Av S". That matches our photograph, where a large placard over his door says "O Kimura - Expert Watchmaker". If the date is accurate, he opened the store in 1909.
In 1940 his two sons Osamu ("Sam") and Kazuota were living with him with Kaz's wife Masako and their daughter Kujoko and newborn grandson Katsumi. The sons both worked at the University Club, one as a steward and one as a bartender.
He went to the holding area at the Puyallup fair grounds and then spent the war at the Minidoka camp. At the time he entered the prison he was 67 years old. His grandson was 3.
Otomatsu grew up on a farm in Japan, and must have worked at Puget Sound oyster beds and some sort of an amusement park per his employment record.
He returned to Seattle after the war with his wife, children and grandchildren.
Kimura died in 1964 at the age of 90. His obituary in the Seattle Times said that he owned his own store until he retired in 1955. Suwa preceded him in death in 1959. At that time they already had one great-grandchild. When he died there were 5.
I'm not yet sure if he returned to the same storefront and retained ownership of the clock. But by 1950 the clock's face was covered with a sign saying "DRY GOODS". So at least in the final years his business was elsewhere.
This photo is on the King County property card for parcel 524780-1590 at the Washington State Puget Sound Regional Archives.
I have a small collection of dead clocks that I sit on top of my kitchen cabinets for decoration....perhaps an odd choice for decor, but i dig it. Anyway, took this shot back in November....hand lit one exposure. I tried many different lightpainting element choices to work into the center....my trusty fake skull..cool but not great.... then went the cardboard tube/tunnel route as well as that is the easiest line up for a circle and staying within the boundaries for a tight shot....but still to no crushing impact in what my mind a photo at its best should have. So the photo has been sitting in my camera since then....getting ready to erase the card and decided to save this shot as it is.....on re-viewing it, i think the simplicity is pretty cool in this case on its own. A sense of mystery and darkness and a single subject. So this idea rests as it is now. And always remember.....even a dead clock is correct twice a day. :)
30 hours steeple-style shelf clock, c.1851-1860. Made by Ansonia Clock Co. of Connecticut using mahogany, mahogany veneer, pine, glass and brass. Clock has reverse painting on class of the original US Capital building, white face with Roman numerals. It has conical finials at corners and a deteriorated paper label inside. 20' tall, 9 7/8" wide and 4" deep.
ACC# 79.485
Donated by Frederick E. Bottiger, 1962
See other clocks in the Society's collection at flic.kr/s/aHskG4S1vr.
(Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
An interestingly different world-art clock, the widest I've ever seen, inside Star Duck Chung Coffee, Vientiane, Laos.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. - Golda Meir
Time goes by so fast and I don't like it.
Former Central Hospital building.
Central Hospital formally known as the Warwick County Lunatic Asylum. Building of the asylum began in 1846 on a 42 acre site purchased from the Earl of Warwick and was completed in 1852. The first patients moved in on 30th June 1852, the building was a classic Victorian asylum built on a grand scale in the gothic style. Eventually gaining over 377 acres of land, the hospital patients provided most of their own food from three farms in the grounds and a spring supplied it with water. Many of the staff lived there too and it became more like a village than a hospital. It had its own sports pitches one being a magnificient cricket ground on the south side of the main gates. There was a coffin maker, hence the number of unconsecrated plots dotted around the site and a chapel that was completed in 1862. Mentally ill patients were subjected to amongst other things electric shock treatment, it was said that certain rooms were haunted by dead patients. However compared to poor houses and other asylums such as Bedlam, the asylum, which between 1930 - 1948 was known as the Warwickshire County Mental Hospital treated their patients quite kindly, with parties and drama productions regularly held by and for the patients who were allowed a lot of freedom within the hospital grounds. In the early 1970's the institution was severely overcrowded, there were many wartime patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress. Others with minor mental illness had been left there and forgotten by families and the outside world. A government investigation eventually reduced numbers to a more reasonable level. The hospital was officially closed on 31 July 1995. Several parts of the site have been retained in the development of Hatton Park.