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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.
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.
This clock was damaged when the A-bomb was exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02 local time on 9th August 1945.
The bomb used 6.4kg of Plutonium and had an explosive power equivalent to 21 thousand tons of TNT. Between 40,000 and 80,000 people were killed.
The Clock Tower in the centre of Brighton has been draped in clothes by one of Finland’s leading artists, Kaarina Kaikkonen, as part of this year’s Brighton Festival. You can just see the clock faces peering out beneath dozens of shirts! The Brighton Festival runs until 26th May and you can find out more here brightonfestival.org/ For more information on the artist and her work at the festival, go to www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Artist-s-Statement-...
i was light on clock radios, but i finally got a few in that were resto worthy. here is a zenith 5A in electric pinkNwhite! love the legs...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.