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Gold ear spools with turquiose and bone inlay lizards. Moche, 525 AD - 550 AD. Dos Cabezas, Tomb 2, Chan Chan, Peru. From the Museo de Sitio de Chan Chan, Huanchaco, Peru. Special Exhibit, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA. Copyright 2018, James A. Glazier.
Studio Clock in the TV studio that is at the top of the National Media Museum in Bradford.
The TV studio was once used by TVAM as a regional news studio, and now is used for various youth projects.
The Clock Tower on the campus of Frostburg State University. FSU is located in Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland, United States.
The Colgate factory has closed up but left behind this huge clock on top of the main building. It still lights up at night and is easily visible from Louisville.
Built on Eastgate, part of Chester's city walls, the Eastgate Clock was erected to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. It has been described as the second most photographed timepiece in the UK after Big Ben. When it was unveiled in 1899 it was not universally popular, some locals thought it too garish and many wanted a statue of the Queen instead.
This clock was a retirement gift for my Mom. The owner of the Master Tool and Mold asked me to create this for her as gift from the company. The gold bricks for the face are from Chrome Block City and the chrome silver engraved tiles for the numbers from Bricks4all. The clock mecanism is of course not LEGO but does play Westminster Chimes.
I've never created a clock before so I was a bit nervouse about how this would turn out. My Mom loved it though, as did every one else at the retirement party so I guess I did well on this one.
As densely populated Manhattan can be overwhelming, I decided to take a day trip to the suburbs. As I had never ventured into Long Island before, I took a ride on the Long Island Rail Road. I decided to come all the way out to Huntington in Suffolk County, simply due to Huntington being the place where my pop music idol Mariah Carey grew up, and the Long Island Rail Road having previously been Mariah's teenage-era run to/from Manhattan to meet with musician friends; I wanted to pay tribute to the town and the atmosphere that had shaped her and her music. Other celebrities, such as Billy Joel and Lindsay Lohan, have also called Huntington home at one time or another.
A streetside clock tower.
Visit to the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio on March 17, 2013. This is an excellent collection of historic cars as well as a few airplanes. I didn't see any information about this rather old propeller, but it has several autographs (one can be glimpsed
at the right edge) on the blades and this clock in the center.
The shot was taken through glass.
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore,
Florence, Italy
The clock above the main door inside the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, or the Duomo, as it is better known in Florence, is the only one of its kind in working order anywhere in the world. To the modern eye, it looks positively bizarre. At its centre, a golden star decorates the blue disc of the clock’s face, whilst the heads of what are believed to be the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are encircled at each corner of the dial’s square frame.
The clock has only one hand, running anti-clockwise from the Roman numeral XXIIII at the bottom, which does not indicate midnight. The clock, in fact, registers the ora italica (‘Italian time’), also known as Bohemian time or Julian time, after Julius Caesar’s 46 CE calendar, which began at sunset and ended at sunset.
Thanks to Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, we know that Paolo di Dono (1397–1475), nicknamed ‘Uccello’ because of his love of strange animals and, in particular, birds, was paid 40 lire in February 1443 when he completed frescoing the face of the clock, which is almost 2 meters in diameter and situated 15 meters off the ground. Obsessed as he was with perspective, in this the second of the works this solitary and eccentric painter from Pratovecchio was commissioned to do in the Duomo, Uccello merged light and shadows on each of the prophets’ faces, making the viewer think that light is streaming in from a window (that, in reality, does not exist), high up on the wall to the left of the clock.
Due to its delicacy, the mechanism has required numerous interventions over the years, including a 17th-century addition: a pendulum based on the studies of Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei and Dutch mathematician and horologist Christiaan Huygens. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Transalpine, French or Gregorian system for measuring time was widely used in Northern Europe. Time was measured in units of 12: midnight to noon (ante meridiem) and noon to midnight (post meridiem). The hours were usually represented in Roman numerals and the hands pointing to them operated a left-to-right (or clockwise) movement. This analog system gradually became established as a standard, further reinforced by the spread of mechanical clocks that did not require continuous maintenance.
But Tuscany was not eager to adopt the analog system. Such was the resistance that, in 1749, Grand Duke Francesco Stefano published an edict enforcing this imported method for calculating time and threatening severe punishment to anyone who failed to adopt it. Therefore, during restoration of the mechanism in 1761, Uccello’s clock face was covered by a new 12-hour version. During this modification, the clock’s original gilded copper hand crafted by the artist also disappeared and a new one was made in the shape of a shooting star. Although the original hand was never recovered, in 1973, after a five-year restoration, Uccello’s clock face is again visible and keeping ora italica.
The beast: I want to do something for her... But what?
Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things: flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep...
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The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square. The clock mechanism itself is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures -- notably a figure of Death (represented by a skeleton) striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.
I cleaned it up and replaced the plug. I discovered that there are two sockets inside with burned out bulbs, so I'll need to replace those.
This is so beautiful alarm clock . & I wanna remember you to do your right work when you had perfect time .
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 working.