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Although a contraption at Stephansplatz in Hamburg is now thought to have predated them by two years, it has often been stated that the first traffic lights in Continental Europe were erected at Potsdamer Platz on 20 Oct 1924, in an attempt to control the sheer volume of traffic passing through. This traffic had grown to extraordinary levels. Even in 1900, more than 100,000 people, 20,000 cars, horse-drawn vehicles and handcarts, plus many thousands of bicycles, passed through the platz daily. By the 1920s the number of cars had soared to 60,000. The trams added greatly to this. The first four lines had appeared in 1880, rising to 13 by 1897, all horse-drawn, but after electrification between 1898 and 1902 the number of lines had soared to 35 by 1908 and ultimately reached 40, carrying between them 600 trams every hour, day and night. Services were run by a large number of companies, but in 1929 all these were unified into the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (Berlin Transport Services) company, which has operated Berlin’s trams ever since. Up to 11 policemen at a time had tried to control all this traffic, many of them standing on small wooden platforms positioned in key locations around the platz, but with varying success. The traffic lights, again from Siemens, were mounted on a five-sided 8.5 m high tower designed by Jean Kramer, shipped over from the United States, and actually modelled on a similar one erected on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1922, although towers like this had been a feature of New York since 1918. A solitary policeman sat in a small cabin at the top of the tower and switched the lights around manually, until they were eventually automated in 1926. Yet some officers still remained on the ground in case people did not pay any attention to the lights. The tower remained until c.1936, when it was removed to allow for excavations for the new S-Bahn line (on 26 September 1997, a replica of the tower was erected, just for show, close to its original location by Siemens, to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary. The replica was moved again on 29 September 2000, to the place where it stands today).
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A clock I created with Autocad, an etching laser, and a waterjet. It has LED backlighting with a remote garage battery. Made from junkyard plexiglass, foam, wiring, found LED's, and a battery harness. Painted the head brown with water-based paint because the foam was orange. Solider the harness to an off/on toggle switch.
This Millenium Clock Tower Sculpture commemorates the human suffering of the 20th century (Glasgow 1999) National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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Funny idea to reuse an old school telephone by Jonas Design !
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This is a simply wonderful shot - two petrol stations next door to each other and next to the lovely clock tower at Warsash. There's a little theme running here as the following three pictures also have churches or clock towers showing in the background. Here the detail in the photo is excellent - the Cleveland pumps are crystal clear and even in the distance the Shell BP and National pumps show with great clarity. Incredibly both garages survive to this day admittedly neither now selling petrol but there's a fine array of cars shown on Google maps here.......... www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.853308,-1.2995766,3a,75y,303.02...
A "mystery clock" on display as part of the "Jazz Age" exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
A "mystery clock" is a timepiece whose hands appear to "float". Such timepieces were fashionable between 1900 and 1940.
This clock was made about 1921 by Cartier, a French jewelry firm established in Paris by Louis-François Cartier (1819–1904) in 1847. In 1916, his grandson, Jacques Cartier, emigrated to the United States and opened a New York City branch of the business on Fifth Avenue.
The actual designer of this timepiece is not known. The creator of the movement is not known. The piece itself is made of gold, platinum, ebonite, citrine, diamonds, and enamel. Ebonite (or Vulcanite) is a very hard artificial resin created by Charles Goodyear in 1844. Citrine is a yellow to brownish-red variety of quartz (the second-most used quartz gemstone after amethyst).
This clock was first owned by Anna Thompson Dodge, wife of automobile manufacturer Horace Dodge.
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IBM 13.5 inch Standard Issue Clock (replica with quartz movement)
$235.00 from Schoolhouse Electric and Supply Co
A faithful reproduction of the classic IBM clocks from the mid-20th century. Constructed with a spun steel case and domed glass lens. The dial features an original graphic treatment, circa 1947. Quartz movement with a continuous sweep second hand. Runs on one C battery.
The ormolu Louis XV style cartel clock from the First Class Lounge of the RMS Olympic. It was originally located at the aft end of the room, on the port side of the curved wall that concealed the No. 3 Funnel casing. On the opposite (starboard) side of the 18' mahogany book case that stood across the centre of the wall, was located a second cartel timepiece in similar Louis XV style. This second timepiece was not a clock but a date indicator.
To the best of current knowledge, it is thought that this area on "Titanic" would have been identical.
24th November 2016.
I am a very lucky girl lately! :)
big big thanks to gaia for making me this hat in my favorite-est color combo. we love it so much!
Capture of Jackson Tower and the building's iconic clock overlooking Pioneer Square in downtown Portland.
This face was added to the inside clock about 70 years after the original. i.e. around 1460
Wells Cathedral, Somerset
Basado en un tutorial encontrado en Internet en la página vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/how-to-create-..., realizado 100% con Inkscape