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I saved this old Genlex clock from a building due for demolition. I haven't tested it to see if it works, but likely it does. Under the white paint is the original brown bakelite; a job for another time me thinks.
Sep 2 2017 - What's become a Montreal landmark on the St Lawrence River.. the Old Port's Clock Tower that's free to climb.. you get a limited view of the city but a more interesting view of the backside workings of the 4 clocks at the top.
After a query from a friend following the previous clock.
Thanks again Timothy Valentine for the original: www.flickr.com/photos/el_ramon/40405629643.
In case you are not familiar with all of the symbols in some of these formulas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions
The large early medieval dial of the Exeter Astronomical Clock is a working model of the solar system as it was then understood. The sun and moon circle around the earth at the centre of the dial.
The outermost black disc, decorated with fleur-de-lys, represents the sun. It goes round the dial once every 24 hours, pointing outwards to the time of day. The tail of the fleur-de-lys points to the day in the lunar month on the inner ring. The ball inside the lunar month ring represents the moon with half its surface black and half silver. It rotates on its axis to show the correct phase of the moon.
The fixed golden ball in the centre of the dial represents the earth.
Exeter Cathedral
this was pretty easy to build, just drilled a hole through the motherboard. I'm going to try to drill a hole through the cpu that was on this motherboard, but it might be a little tough!
Clocks just ask to be photographed. They're like cameras, so many models made through the years. Love the bokeh on this lens.
Shot with the Nikon FM 35mm camera loaded with Kentmere 100 asa film developed in Ilfosol3 for 7.5 minutes at 68F.
Take 2 of this clock featured on the former Kaufman Department store (now Macy's). The first take of this was a few years back in sepia. Really wanting to get out and do some shooting again, getting the bi monthly itch to do so!
Restoring this clock for a Porthmadog man to find a signature made by the last known repairer, it reads:
Repaired by
Ellis Lewis Guard Festiniog Railway,
38 Chapel Street Portmadoc
October 1947.
Interestingly the railway closed down in 1946, but I think that this gentleman was proud of the fact that he had worked on the Festiniog Railway!
Love it when i find this type of thing on a clock.
One of the newest tourist attractions of our wonderful City, the Corpus/Grasshopper clock, which i found absolutely awe inspiring! Unfortunately the sun was in the wrong place so there was a dreadful reflection on the glass which no amount of polarising was going to remove, so i focused in on the pendulum which if you look really closely shows a fish-eye effect of Kings College and Chapel. If you look even closer you will see me and my two boys standing watching along with about 20 other tourists.
The info bit... (courtesy of wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock
The Corpus Clock is a large sculptural clock on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It was conceived and funded by John C. Taylor, an old member of the college.
It was officially unveiled to the public on 19 September 2008 by Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking
The clock's face is a rippling 24-carat gold-plated stainless steel disc, about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in diameter. It has no hands or numbers, but displays the time by opening individual slits in the clock face backlit with blue LEDs; these slits are arranged in three concentric rings displaying hours, minutes, and seconds. The seconds light darts rapidly around the clock, pausing at the correct positions to allow the time to be read as on a normal analog clock.
The dominating visual feature of the clock is a sculpture of a grim-looking, devouring, metal insect similar to a grasshopper or locust. The sculpture is actually the clock's escapement (see below). Taylor calls this beast the Chronophage (literally 'time eater', from the Greek χρόνος [chronos] time, and φαγέω [phageo] I eat). It moves its mouth, appearing to 'eat up' the seconds as they pass, and occasionally it 'blinks' in seeming satisfaction. The creature's constant motion produces an eerie grinding sound that suits its task. The hour is tolled by the sound of a chain clanking into a small wooden coffin hidden in the back of the clock.[2]
Below the clock is an inscription from the Vulgate 1 John 2:17: mundus transit et concupiscentia eius ("the world passeth away, and the lust thereof").
The clock is entirely accurate only once every five minutes.[3] The rest of the time, the pendulum may seem to catch or stop, and the lights may lag or, then, race to get ahead. According to Taylor, this erratic motion reflects life's "irregularity".[4]
Conceived as a work of public art, the Chronophage reminds viewers in a dramatic way of the inevitable passing of time. Taylor deliberately designed it to be "terrifying": "Basically I view time as not on your side. He'll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next." Others have described it as "hypnotically beautiful and deeply disturbing".
The clock has many unexpected and innovative features; for example, the pendulum briefly stops at apparently irregular intervals, and the Chronophage moves its mouth and blinks its eyes. Taylor explains it as follows:[7]
The gold eyelids travel across the eye and disappear again in an instant; if you are not watching carefully you will not even notice... Sometimes you will even see two blinks in quick succession. The Blink is performed by a hidden spring drive, controlled in the best tradition of seventeenth century clockmakers of London. The spring is coiled up inside a housing that can be seen mounted on the large gearwheel visibly protruding from the bottom of the mechanism. As the huge pendulum below the Clock rocks the Chronophage as he steps round the great escapewheel, each backward and forward movement is used by sprag clutches to wind up the drive spring. A position step prevents the spring from being overwound yet allows the spring to be ready at an instant to drive the Blink. The mechanism is released by a countwheel with semi random spacing so the Blink takes place at any position in the to- and fro- motion of the pendulum. A further countwheel mechanism chooses a single or a double blink whilst the air damper at the top of the gear train slows the action to a realistic pace.
The Corpus Clock is expected to be able to run accurately for at least two hundred years.
Inside the famous Yokohama ferris wheel looking at the Grand Inter-Continental hotel.
Yokohama, Japan
This French clock was given to my grandparents as a wedding present in 1905. See the whole clock at: www.flickr.com/photos/9742303@N02/4954034840/
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BULGARIA 2007
Stork in Nessebar ( Nessebur) clock
Nessebar - UNESCO HERITAGE , One of the oldest towns in Europe
Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the more than 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement (Menebria). At the beginning of the 6th century B.C., the city became a Greek colony. The city's remains, which date mostly from the Hellenistic period, include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, an agora and a wall from the Thracian fortifications. Among other monuments, the Stara Mitropolia Basilica and the fortress date from the Middle Ages, when this was one of the most important Byzantine towns on the west coast of the Black Sea. Wooden houses built in the 19th century are typical of the Black Sea architecture of the period
I enjoyed making this clock, the rounded top was a fun challenge. The wood came from recycled church pews.
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