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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)
This clock was a retirement gift for my Mom. The owner of the company she retired from, 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.
Wie oft seid ihr schon „zu spät“ gekommen?
Mit der richtigen Zeitanzeige hätte es geklappt.
Mein Beitrag zur Happy Shooting Aufgabe "Zu Spät"
This clock is in our living room. On the hour it makes the sound of the bird for that hour. Many of these birds live around us. I am constantly hearing the 7 o’clock bird outside.
I took my little camera and recorded each of the bird sounds. You can hear each one by clicking the note on the photo. They are all low quality files but at least you can get an idea what they sound like.
The little piece of tape that is at 12 o’clock is to slightly block the light on the light sensor. This sensor controls how loud the bird sounds are. In a completely dark room you don’t hear it at all. That little piece of tape has the effect of lowering the volume.
To get Arabic numbers on the computer, you need to change the setting to Hindi numerals, as English uses Arabic numerals as opposed to Roman numerals! I wonder whose numbers they use in india?? Does anybody really know what time it is..........?
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.
Swanage is one of my favourite stations. As well as it's steam engines, I love this clock and the look of the station itself.
object against black background.
Taken in natural light. Light source from window at left. Reflectorused to balance shadows.
Nikon D80, 50mm prime lens.
Aperture Priority F3.2
Speed 1/125
ISO 400
Exposure Bias -1EV
Centre Weighted metering
WB - cloudy
I found this very difficult to take and not blow out the shiny bits.
This attractive clock is located in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. After taking this shot, it was time to head to Corned Beef & Co. for lunch!
Imitation antique clock hanging on the wall in my kitchen
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Our Daily Challenge 10-16 July : Reuse, Repurpose.
I found this enormous lorry hubcap in the shrubbery on my road and brought it home.
Once cleaned of all the diesel grease etc it makes a great feature at the end of my garden path. The clock no longer has any works, but the tree surgeons 'put it right' last time they were here!