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Cukoo Clock shop in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. The Cuckoo Clock has its origin in the heart of the Black Forest in Germany, having been invented there in Schoenwald in 1737.
I've always liked atomic-era clocks but have never been able to afford them (either vintage or reproduction).
I made this similar-looking clock using eggbeaters that were collecting dust at my local thrift store. The center is made from a cheese board, minus the glass dome that usually comes with them.
A full tutorial for this project originally appeared in The Satellite magazine. You can also read full instructions and watch an animated video on my website.
Update: This clock was a winner in the Craft and Hobby Association's Indie Craft Contest and was featured at the 2009 CHA Winter Show. It was also featured in the book 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson and on TheKitchn.
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A North Muskegon family bought this for the city in 2006 to commemorate the park's centennial anniversary
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.
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
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.
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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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.
A rather nice traditional station clock survives at Worcester Shrub Hill station and is seen here on the 4th May 2016.
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.
Like most things in nature, dandelions are exquisite when you take a little time to pay attention to them.
Queensland's Scenic Rim Regional Council has installed a new town clock in Boonah named after the original township Blumbergville. Installed in 2014.
The Blumbergville clock is both an artwork and timepiece and has been made as part of the town's recovery from floods in the region.
The clock's creator, local sculptor Christopher Trotter, says it is designed to play on the town's former name and commemorate the Scenic Rim's agricultural heritage.
"It's called Blumbergville clock because Boonah used to be named Blumbergville and it was named after the Blumberg brothers," said Mr Trotter, whose other works include the famous City Roos in Brisbane CBD, the mechanical pelicans on the Brisbane River and the fish fossil at Kangaroo Point.
"For me it's this crazy Dr. Seuss name - you know Blumbergville - that's like from a parallel reality, so I've done this piece that's somewhere sort of steam punk, [film director] Tim Burton, crazy-fun thing.
"It's resulted a year later in about a four-tonne, five-and-a-half-metre-high town clock."
Mr Trotter says the clock has been made from recovered and donated farm equipment.
"The whole project was about the resilience of the community with the floods," he said.
"I've taken components that have been donated from various farms as well as I've acquired stuff that would have worked these farms and I've created this timepiece.
"Blumberg actually means blossoming hill, so I've taken this old firebox from a steam boiler and it's become the carcass of this clock, and the side of it is curved, and we've got this new growth coming out the side".
"We have a stationary engine here which is probably 1930s and I've developed a way where actually the compression of the engine drives a steam whistle, so on the hour we'll get a sound that will come from that."
Scenic Rim Mayor John Brent says the clock also includes a piece from his family's farm.
"A blade off an old double-dump chaff cutter that has done lots of work and if only it could tell a story or two," Cr Brent said.
"We're very keen to ensure that we bring back some of the past - recognise Blumbergville is etched in the minds of those who were our pioneers and now we build on that strong base of agricultural production."
The Scenic Rim region suffered damage during the floods of 2011 and 2013, and the clock has largely been paid for with flood recovery funding.
Cr Brent says the clock is reflective of the local agricultural community.
"[It shows] the resilience generally of rural and regional communities particularly in south-east Queensland," he said.
Mr Trotter also wanted visitors to get a sense of the Scenic Rim as they view the clock and has included a number of animals and features inspired by the local environment.
"The frog is inspired by the Pobblebonk and there's a sound in the clock itself that people will hear that," he said.
"There's a number of different noises that come from the area that will be surprise elements, so that when people come to see it they will get surprises at quarter-past, half-past and quarter-to."
Mr Trotter's other works include the famous City Roos in Brisbane CBD, the mechanical pelicans on the Brisbane River and the fish fossil at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane.
Mr Trotter, a Boonah resident who boasts a catalogue of public art commissions from around Australia over his 20-year sculpting career, says the clock has been one of his biggest works - and the most important.
"I've done pieces all over Australia and for this it's my hometown - I want to make sure it's the best thing I can do," he said.
The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]), is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague
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- 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.
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..
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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.