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King's reflected in the golden 'Chronophage'. Cambridge, UK
The new clock at Corpus Christi, Cambridge was designed by Dr John Taylor, an horologist and former student at Corpus. The face is plated with 24 carat gold and it is said to have cost a million pounds to make. It is partly a tribute to John Harrison, an 18th century English clockmaker who solved the problem of longitude. He also invented the 'grasshopper escapement' (part of a clock mechanism), hence the freaky grasshopper thing which moves with every second and 'eats' the time as it passes. 'Chronophage' means 'time-eater'. The clock was unveiled by Professor Stephen Hawking on 19th September 2008.
Here's a video explaining how it works.
Here's Stephen Hawking about to unveil it www.flickr.com/photos/27466406@N00/2886233692
And here it is just after being revealed www.flickr.com/photos/27466406@N00/2886243060
Yay! My laser cut plastic from Ponoko arrived and like the best ikea flatpack it assembled together and all the parts actually fit!
It's six rectangles with slots in the top and bottom and ridges on the side, front and back walls. It doesn't hold itself together very well if you aren't careful, though a bit of glue would soon fix that. For now I'm leaving it as it is.
The main control PCB goes on the outside back, where you can easily access the buttons to change the time. Power supply is inside on one side wall, and the two nixie driver boards themselves are on the bottom. Amazingly, my laser cut holes line up with the holes in the PCBs and I am able to screw everything into place! Hurrah!
DCF77 Master Clock
Uses Arduino ATMEGA 328 IC, 1" Max2719 controlled 7 segment display with I2C 4x20 Yellow LCD information display.
Displays auto activated by PIR detector and auto brightness is set by LDR.
The DCF77 signal is decoded using the fantastic new DCF77 library written by Udo Klein.
First Wall Clock. Designed and built by Bill Rickerson. Design based on Thomas Clock. Dark wood is jarrah. Light wood is maple. Wooden gears made from laminated hard maple.
"Unless I'm wrong
I but obey
The urge of a song:
I'm--bound--away!
And I may return
If dissatisfied
With what I learn
From having died."
~Robert Frost
AWAY!
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And
That which has been away now longs to be alive once again...
Photographed is the dial, hands, and movement to an early 18th Century Chippendale 'Grandmother Tall Case Clock'. By providence the clock has made it's way to me. One can see the accumulated dust on the movement before I disassemble and clean the movement. I believe the last time the clock functioned was the 1950's.
*Our Daily Challenge topic:
AWAY! is the topic for Sunday ~ April 10th, 2022
En attendant le vrai printemps,
j'ai le temps
de photographier le temps.
Waiting for the real springtime,
I have the time
to protograph the time.
I took this shot specifically for the 888 group, to commemorate the special date:
August 8, 2008.
As you can see, this a long exposure of 8 seconds (evident by the number of 'second' hands)
Movement: 44A 25J maual winding with Hacking
Vibration : 18000 BPH
Case : Stainless Steel
Glass : Acrylic glass
Waterproof : /
Case Diameter : 37mm (without Crown)
Production Year : 1967, Daini Seikosha Co.
Camera for the photo : Olympus OM-D E-M5
Lens for the photo : Lumix Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8
Week 36 View 52
Went to Wookey Hole this weekend I was hoping to get some shots inside the caves but sadly no flash was allowed due to it having rare bats. I could slap myself as I was toying with taking my monopod but I changed my mind last minute I did try to improvise with the caves surroundings but sadly nothing was worth keeping so this weeks submission is this vintage clocking in machine that was on show at Wookey Hole.
Product photography for a client that needed clean and simple shots of different items, this was a part of a clock collection with a kinds of clocks, old and new.
The American Trust Company constructed this bank at 101 Petaluma Boulevard North, in Petaluma, in 1926.
Today it houses a *very* large antique mall called Vintage Bank Antiques.
This is the clock mounted above the secured area in front of the vault entrance. Even the vault is full of antiques for sale.
One of the historic sidewalk clocks in downtown Columbus
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The Prague astronomical clock, or Prague orloj (Pražský orloj), is a mediaeval astronomical clock, first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working.
National Debt Clock, New York City
"Our national debt:
6.388.615.296.055
YOUR family share: 69.744 "
Taken on January 28, 2003.
The National Debt Clock was created by a New York real estate developer in 1989. The goal of Seymour Durst was to create awareness of the debt’s size and the speed with which it was growing. The clock was stopped in September of 2000 as government debt levels decreased because of budget surpluses. The national debt was 5,676,989,904,887. (73,733 / family.)
The clock was reactivated in 2002.
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 02 May 2007 at 01:22:27 PM GMT:
$8.842.734.748.905
For inspiration and sources and resources please see the Mathmap Group and Escher's Droste Print Gallery.
Here you go Billy ...
The Victoria Tower, Salisbury Dock, by Jesse Hartley, is dated 1848.
It is constructed of irregular shaped granite blocks and takes the
form of an octagon with a high tapered circular base which is pierced
by round arched openings. Above the base is a string moulding and
narrow slits at the first floor below a continuous balcony carried on
stone brackets. Higher again are eight circular clock faces and long
open slits and round eyes at the top. The tower is crowned by a
projecting castellated parapet carried on corbels.
This spectacular piece of showmanship was primarily a handsome clock
and bell tower, not only giving time to neighbouring docks and arriving
and departing ships, but also ringing out high tide and warning notes.
Local folklore is that it was built by French prisoners from the Napoleonic
Wars, but as the wars had ended 29 years before the tower was designed,
this seems unlikely ...
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