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Displayed in the Barney Ford House and Museum in Breckenridge, Colorado. The top dial indicates time of day; the bottom dial is a calendar. The device is in working order with both dials accurate.
The „World clock” (Világóra in Hungarian) is in the city of Gyula, in Southern Hungary. Interesting place to check curiosity of what time is in the other cities around the globe. It's not a big monument but fits into the scenery well.
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In 1987 some waterfront was developed in Brisbane for restaurants, and small offices. Part of the development included a reasonable sized lookout tower (now bolted shut) and an unusual water clock.
I remember seeing this operating in the early 90s on a visit, and it was impressive. I can't remember exactly how it worked, but those two vertical tubes are marked with times, and I think water was pumped to the top, and at the hour, a BIG bucket thing came out on rails along the red cantilevered ramp, and then the bucket was overturned and it all came splashing down inot the pond at the bottom, to start again.
Depending on the wind, and how close you wanted to see the action, it was touch and go whether you ended up being involved in a wet T-shirt competition or not.
If only I had a photo, or if only I could find it.
Well, sadly the complex was not a roarinf success, and that might be partly because of its position with respect to road access. I am not sure, but today, some of the building is still used, but much of it seems lifeless, and the water clock is looking rather sad, with broken clock faces, all shuttered up and fenced off, and pidgeons roosting in the top.
There is another wider shot below from the other side of Breakfast Creek which is just off the main Brisbane River. The "Italian" gondolas that ferry romance around the river leave from here.
Times up for this CLOCK
Timepieces Theme
The clock in Downtown Forest City, NC was restored in 2014 by Gene Volk, a clock repairman from the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, of Hendersonville, NC.
We visited London during our 2010 visit to the UK. We had a lovely day with beautiful weather, and enjoyed the area around the Wheel and Westminster Abbey. This is the clock (sometimes called Big Ben) on the Houses of Parliament.
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This clock was damaged when the A-bomb was exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02 local time on 9th August 1945.
The bomb used 6.4kg of Plutonium and had an explosive power equivalent to 21 thousand tons of TNT. Between 40,000 and 80,000 people were killed.
View of a brick courthouse with an American flag and clock tower on top. The card
is numbered W-22 and SB-H606.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Service News Co., Wilmington, N.C.;
Date:
1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943;
1944; 1945
Location:
Wilmington (N.C.); New Hanover County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
After a query from a friend following the previous clock.
Thanks again Timothy Valentine for the original: www.flickr.com/photos/el_ramon/40405629643.
In case you are not familiar with all of the symbols in some of these formulas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions
RESTORE!! (This was one of my New Year's "guidelines," to restore or repair old things and make them new again). I took an old clock that I have had since about 1967 and made it over into something quite different. It might be gaudy for some, but I like how it matches the multi-colored frames on my nightstand now.
Basically I cleaned up the old hardware and scraped old glue, then painted the wood parts of the clock gold. I then attached glass crystals in various sizes and colors to make something that looks like it could come from the thieves' cave that Ali Baba visits (or so I tell myself).
While I did this I watched the uncut version of 1954's "The Egyptian," directed by Michael Curtiz. OMG what a long and melodramatic movie!!! I saw it years ago but I had forgotten most of it.
What pleases me about this mosaic is that I did not "set up" any of the clocks. I was actually present to take the photo at whatever-o'clock is showing on each of these. The photo title and the center square reflect that fact that in some cases I did wait for a minute or two in order to catch the minute hand as close to "straight up" as possible. In a few cases, though, I really was just in the right place at exactly the right time.
1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clcok, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, waiting area.
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This was my grandmothers clock and as far back as I can remember it never worked, When she passed my father got it. As far back as I can remember when he had it it never worked! When I moved out I dug it out of the back of the closet and took it to a clock maker. He totally rebuilt it. That was 30 yrs ago! Still keeps perfect time! Chimes on the hour and half hour. Eight day movement.
The Ansonia Clock Company of New York 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. In 1914 it produced 440 different clocks!
"On the west wall of the courtyard is the iron clock, presented to Muhammad Ali by the French King Louis Philippe, with a tea salon on the upper level. Its style is a mixture of neo-gothic and oriental elements. The clock, given as a gift in exchange for the obelisk now in the Palace de la Concorde, Paris."
(Thanks Rania)
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