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The Jubilee clock is a street clock built in 1887 in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign. It is located at the foot of Victoria Street and Loch Promenade.
The Kremlin Clock or Kremlin chimes is a historic clock on the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
The Kremlin clock faces have a diameter of 6.12 metres (20.1 ft) and are placed on all four sides of the Spasskaya tower. The Roman numerals are 0.72 m (2.4 ft) tall. The length of the hour hand is 2.97 m (9.7 ft), and of the minute hand 3.27 m (10.7 ft). The total weight of clock and bells is 25 tons. The mechanism is powered by 3 weights, weighing between 160 and 224 kilograms (353 and 494 lb). Accuracy is achieved by a pendulum weighing 32 kg (71 lb).
The "restoration" story of this historic city clock is kinda funny...
From the Eagle Tribune - April 18, 2017:
HAVERHILL — Repairing the old downtown clock was as simple as plugging it back in.
The clock on the sidewalk in front of the parking deck on Merrimack Street that had stopped working at some point in the recent past is now keeping time again.
City officials say it was expected to cost thousands of dollars to repair — but that was before the city electrician found the clock was just unplugged, so to speak.
City Councilor Melinda Barrett, who has been involved in bringing the clock back to life, said the clock's electrical wiring was found to be disconnected in several locations.
"It was repaired, tested and is working fine, although it is a little fast," she said Tuesday morning. "A bulb is burned out, but that can be replaced."
A resident of the city has stepped forward with an offer to donate money for the clock's maintenance.
The clock had been stopped at a couple of minutes after 12.
www.eagletribune.com/news/plugged-in-haverhill-s-downtown...
The clock sends time signals to the centralized fault data interface unit, the flight data interface unit and the flight management and guidance computer.
"On the eve of all the festivities, the doors to the roof are opened... From atop the clock tower roof, a ceremony to call the gods is held and an ancient song is sung." — Granny
Mantel clock (pendule), anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1755
gilding, h 43.9cm × w 30.7cm × d 26.1cm More details
A great deal of Meissen ware was exported to Paris, where merchants in luxury goods devised all kinds of new objects in which to incorporate the expensive porcelain. This clock is set in a gilt-bronze case to which a Meissen porcelain figure group has been added. The two figures are Columbine and Pantalone, characters from the commedia dell’arte, the Italian theatre tradition.
New approach to the S2 clock project in evidence here.
So far the brief/analysis/specification pages are produced in much the same way as ever. The radical shift is in the generation of ideas approach. Here we borrowed an idea outlined in Kurt Rowland's 1968 book "The Shapes We Need". Amongst other things Rowland explores spatial relationships and really gets to the heart of aesthetics and visual beauty. Some things just look right and others don't. Why is this? Rowland seems to have a some good theories about this. This book was part of a series he released in the late 60's. I understand these textbooks were standard issue in Glasgow Secondary Schools Art Departments at the time. I don't know of any art teachers that used them much apart from my mother. Anyway this little card based exercise suited our purposes perfectly.
The current S2 course has seeen alot of changes over the last five years. We'll distribute the cours notes on the S2 Course page at: designandtechnologydepartment.co.uk in due course.
The Hilltown Clock was made by Beath and Keay, iron founders in 1900.
The inscription reads:
"Presented to the Community of Dundee by Charles Barrie, one of the representatives of the Seventh Ward, December 1900".
Date: c.1985
Ref: DCC-BW180-29
King's reflected in the golden 'Chronophage'. Cambridge, UK
The new clock at Corpus Christi, Cambridge was designed by Dr John Taylor, an horologist and former student at Corpus. The face is plated with 24 carat gold and it is said to have cost a million pounds to make. It is partly a tribute to John Harrison, an 18th century English clockmaker who solved the problem of longitude. He also invented the 'grasshopper escapement' (part of a clock mechanism), hence the freaky grasshopper thing which moves with every second and 'eats' the time as it passes. 'Chronophage' means 'time-eater'. The clock was unveiled by Professor Stephen Hawking on 19th September 2008.
Here's a video explaining how it works.
Here's Stephen Hawking about to unveil it www.flickr.com/photos/27466406@N00/2886233692
And here it is just after being revealed www.flickr.com/photos/27466406@N00/2886243060
Gold and cream with silver face alarm clock, cool retro look. Made by hes
More details at artyczechsgallery.blogspot.com/
Yay! My laser cut plastic from Ponoko arrived and like the best ikea flatpack it assembled together and all the parts actually fit!
It's six rectangles with slots in the top and bottom and ridges on the side, front and back walls. It doesn't hold itself together very well if you aren't careful, though a bit of glue would soon fix that. For now I'm leaving it as it is.
The main control PCB goes on the outside back, where you can easily access the buttons to change the time. Power supply is inside on one side wall, and the two nixie driver boards themselves are on the bottom. Amazingly, my laser cut holes line up with the holes in the PCBs and I am able to screw everything into place! Hurrah!
WFMU DJ and bookkeeper Kelly Jones keeps this cute clock over her desk on the 5th floor.
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Piazza della Loggia - Torre dell'Orologio, modelled on the campanile in Venice's Piazza San Marco : detail