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Displayed in the Barney Ford House and Museum in Breckenridge, Colorado. The top dial indicates time of day; the bottom dial is a calendar. The device is in working order with both dials accurate.
Closed for a little longer than a lunch break. Shot on Fomapan 200 (expired 2023) using a Canon T70 with Canon R 135/3.5 lens. Curves adjusted in GIMP.
Whittlesey (historically known as Whittlesea or Witesie) is an ancient Fenland market town.
Whittlesey appears in the Cartularium Saxonicum (973 A.D.) as Witlesig, in the Domesday Book as Witesie, and in the Inquisitio Eliensis[2] (1086 A.D.) as Wittleseia. The meaning is "Wit(t)el’s island", deriving from either Witil, "the name of a moneyer", or a diminutive of Witta, a personal name; + "eg", meaning "'island', also used of a piece of firm land in a fen."
Before the draining of the fens, Whittlesey was an island of dry ground surrounded by the marshy fens. Excavations of nearby Flag Fen indicate thriving local settlements as far back as 1000 BC. At Must Farm quarry, a Bronze Age settlement is described as 'Britain's Pompeii' due to its relatively good condition
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electronically-driven tuning fork clock mechanism about 1971. The clock hums to itself. The technology predates quartz clock movements. It has been overhauled once in 35 years.
This was my grandmothers clock and as far back as I can remember it never worked, When she passed my father got it. As far back as I can remember when he had it it never worked! When I moved out I dug it out of the back of the closet and took it to a clock maker. He totally rebuilt it. That was 30 yrs ago! Still keeps perfect time! Chimes on the hour and half hour. Eight day movement.
The Ansonia Clock Company of New York 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. In 1914 it produced 440 different clocks!
The clock in Downtown Forest City, NC was restored in 2014 by Gene Volk, a clock repairman from the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, of Hendersonville, NC.
We visited London during our 2010 visit to the UK. We had a lovely day with beautiful weather, and enjoyed the area around the Wheel and Westminster Abbey. This is the clock (sometimes called Big Ben) on the Houses of Parliament.
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If only... time could freeze,
at the wish of your heart.
So that, you could cherish the breeze,
of happiness that just took its start.
If only... time could go back,
at the thought of your brain.
So that, you could probably go and smack,
all the wrong-doings that bring you pain.
If only... time could show what lay ahead,
at the death of your soul.
So that, you could peacefully lie dead,
realising this was the best end for your stroll.
RESTORE!! (This was one of my New Year's "guidelines," to restore or repair old things and make them new again). I took an old clock that I have had since about 1967 and made it over into something quite different. It might be gaudy for some, but I like how it matches the multi-colored frames on my nightstand now.
Basically I cleaned up the old hardware and scraped old glue, then painted the wood parts of the clock gold. I then attached glass crystals in various sizes and colors to make something that looks like it could come from the thieves' cave that Ali Baba visits (or so I tell myself).
While I did this I watched the uncut version of 1954's "The Egyptian," directed by Michael Curtiz. OMG what a long and melodramatic movie!!! I saw it years ago but I had forgotten most of it.
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.
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