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Modding classic frequency counters into nixie tube clocks. Read more about this project here.
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The case of this clock is by Hans Coenraadt Breghtel (1608-75) with movement by Adriaan van den Bergh. It is from the Hague in 1650-75 and is partially gilded silver.
It appears in the V&A exhibition Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence.
This clock was made for display as a masterpiece of design and technical virtuosity. The exceptionally fine goldsmiths' work includes richly embossed floral ornament and also silver filigree, a technique of Chinese origin. The design, with complex references to the zodiac, the seasons and the passing of time, presents the clock as a Temple of Life.
V&A Museum no. 92-1870
See this object on the V&A Interactive Global Baroque map: www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/baroque/interactive_map.html
Mantel clock, triple chiming (Westminster, St.Michael, Whittington), in oak veneer with lighter oak inlay.
I think it dates from the 1920's. Or maybe it is even older.
Despertador antic. Crec que data del 1920. O potser encara és més vell.
Clocks I made for my Architecture of Objects Course. Inspired by Art Deco style desk clocks from the 1920's - 30's
Klink Clock
Chapelle des Recollets
10.02.12
Héloïse Siaud pour www.theartchemists.com
Live report : www.theartchemists.com/index.php?option=com_content&v...
This gigantic clock, at the heart and peak of the old asylum, somehow lends an appropriate gravitas to the structure. With four large dials, each crested by a gracefully sculpted "bishop's hat" arch, it is is a fine sight to behold through a long lens.
To see some excellent historical views taken from atop this tower during the hospital's later operational days in the 1990s, click here. Fellow Leeds-based urban exporer Phill.d also posted some great images from inside the tower back in 2007: click here to have a look at what lies within.
Hoher Markt, Vienna. Designed by Franz Matsch for Anker Insurance Co and built 1911-17 and originally intended to commemorate an Austrian Victory in the Great War. Rulers of Austria move through the windows either side as time passes.
My wife's grandfather was given this clock as a leaving present, after working for 45 years for British Rail.
Today the Hereios of the We're Here! group are getting into black and white details.
Clock and jeweler historian Paul Middents gave a half-hour talk discussing the history of street clocks in Seattle and Bremerton, and focusing on the life and career of Joseph Mayer. Mayer manufactured perhaps 100 street clocks in addition to manufacturing spoons, urns, trophies, medals, streetcar tokens and other items.
The audience at the Kitsap County Historical Society was comprised of street clock fans and experts from around the country.
We visited the clock on the screen the previous day: www.flickr.com/photos/tigerzombie/15335618391/in/photostr...
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The original clock-face from the the clock-tower of the Holyrood brewery, Edinburgh.
Now living in the fire-exit of the PizzaExpress, Holyrood building.
this large clock with it's numbers scattered around its face is in one of the side entrances to the L'Illa building in Barcelona. It was designed by Javier Mariscal in 1994 for the Swiss company Winterthur.
I particularly like the way the number 6 blocks the entrance stairway!
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Detail of the longcase clock at my grandparents' house.
It always looked funny to me the roman number 4 as IIII (instead of IV), but seems common in clock dials.
The Astronomical Clock at Bracken House, Cannon Street, London.
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What makes (the original) Bracken House unique is the attention to detail and quality of material: the oak-leaf decoration around the main Cannon Street entrance, the lantern, the boxed-out bronze oriel windows with the free-standing ‘Egyptian’ columns, also made of bronze, and of course, the astronomical clock. It was designed in 1959 in gilt metal and enamel and shows Roman numerals, the months, and the signs of the zodiac, with the sun in the centre. The original design was even more elaborate and framed by Atlas figures, but they were lost in the final execution. A drawing of the first design was shown at the 1955 Royal Academy Exhibition by Albert Richardson himself, who was at the time President to the Academy. The zodiac signs have been ascribed to Frank Dobson and the face (as well as the oak-leaf mouldings around the door) is the work of Phillip Bentham.(4) And yes, the face in the sun does resemble Winston Churchill, a tribute to him as Bracken‘s personal friend.
Bracken House was built in the second half of the 1950s to house the Financial Times and named after Brendan Bracken (1901-1958), the former chairman of the paper. The building was designed by Bracken’s friend Sir Albert Richardson (1880-1964) who deliberately made use of pink brick and Hollington sandstone to reflect the colour of the newspaper. The design was “a curious mixture of Italian Renaissance and Swedish twentieth-century neo-classical elements”.(1) It consisted of two separate elevations, one on Cannon Street and one on Queen Victoria Street with the utilitarian printing works in between. Because the site was not exactly rectangular or square and because Distaff Lane and Friday Street on either side of the building slope down towards the river, not to mention the existence of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey in the southwest corner, the two elevations do not align properly and the 24 floor levels inside were ‘complicated’ to say the least.
READ MORE HERE ,, baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/bracken-house/
Unusual for me to pick up a transistor set (this one has 7 in case you're counting), but I liked the symmetry of this one.
Mid '60s with "Color Band Tuning" so either the FM (green letters) or AM (red letters) band is illuminated when selected.
Wood cabinet rotates on a swivel base too!