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It works! Yay!
Now I'm getting somewhere!
Not fully tested, but this is a great step.
It's not a clock yet - but now making it one is mostly a software problem. Which is good, because that's where my maddest skillz are. Bad, because that process isn't very photogenic.
Well, and then there's building the enclosure, which is going to be a challenge. The design I've come up with is intended to be Art Deco style, and we'll see if it's within my abilities.
That rightmost tube is a bit tilty. I might fix that, or I might leave it like it is because it gives the project that handmade feel.
İzmir Clock Tower (Turkish: İzmir Saat Kulesi) is a historic clock tower located at the Konak Square in Konak district of İzmir, Turkey. The clock tower was designed by the Levantine French architect Raymond Charles Père and built in 1901 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Abdülhamid II's (reigned 1876–1909) accession to the throne.
The clock itself was a gift of German Emperor Wilhelm II (reigned 1888–1918). It is decorated in an elaborate Ottoman architecture. The tower, at a height of 25 m features four fountains, which are placed around the base in a circular pattern, and the columns are inspired by North African themes.
The clock tower was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 500 lira banknotes of 1983-1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/İzmir_Clock_Tower
The clock tower tops the building, the Carbon County courthouse, which is made of native stone. It is located in the center of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The Jim Thorpe area is refered to as "the Switzerland of America".
A 60:1 gear reduction to move the second and minute hands.
Video here
More information at 62bricks.com/lego-clock/
Dating from 1535, the clock is part of the Conciergerie on the Île de la Cité.
The Conciergerie is part of the Palais de Justice, a complex. The site was a royal palace between c10-14th until 1358 when Charles V moved the palace to the Louvre on the main bank. During its existence as a royal palace, the complez was developed and extended by Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, (1226–1270) and Philip the Fair (1284–1314). Louis added the Sainte-Chapelle and associated galleries, and Philippe the towered facade on the river side and "Grand Salle" (Great Hall). Although the royal palace moved, Parlement continued to be held here, and in 1391 the complex was converted into a prison. During the French Revolution, the Conciergerie's reputation as a prison was reinforced as it became the "antechamber to the guillotine", holding up to 1,200 prisoners at any one time during "The Terror" (2,600 people were sent to the guillotine between 2 April 1793 and 31 May 1795).
Taken on Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris.
Taken at Walsall Leather Museum, a Walsall Council-managed heritage centre celebrating the town's tradition with the leather industry.
My parents' grandfather clock. Movement made in Germany, case built in Hong Kong, c. 1987. This was purchased in 1988 off a relative who had ordered this clock but received the wrong finish.
The Colgate factory has closed up but left behind this huge clock on top of the main building. It still lights up at night and is easily visible from Louisville.
D&F clocktower, Denver...
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H.G. Wells: Do you still insist that this is all poppycock?
Amy Robbins: That's not exactly the word I had in mind...
--"Time After Time" (1979)
Clock tower of Orange County Courthouse, Paoli, Indiana (my home town) - taken from NE side of public square
The Dome
Facts About the Dome
•Height, from base to weather vane: 121'
•Diameter at base: 40'
•Construction begun: 1785
•Interior work completed: 1797
•Wood used in dome construction: Timber from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, supplied by Dashiell family of Cypress Swamp, Somerset County.
•Architect of the dome: Joseph Clark
•Possible model for design of the dome: Schloßturm, the dome of the free-standing tower next to the palace of Karl-Wilhelm, Markgraf of Baden, in Karlsruhe, Germany
History of the State House Dome
When the Continental Congress came to Annapolis to meet in the Old Senate Chamber from November 1783 – August 1784, they found a State House which was still unfinished. Although the Old Senate Chamber was complete, the roof was not and it had leaked during the last few winters, damaging the upstairs rooms. The dome—or cupola—atop the State House was variously described as inadequate, unimpressive, and too small for the building and, it, too, leaked.
In order to rectify the situation, Joseph Clark, an Annapolis architect and builder, was asked to repair the roof and the dome. Clark first raised the pitch of the roof to facilitate the runoff of water and covered it with cypress shingles. The crowning achievement of Clark’s work on the State House was, of course, the extraordinary dome which he designed and built. It is not known where Clark’s inspiration for the unusual design of the dome came from, but it is very similar to one in Karlsruhe, Germany called the Schloßturm.
By the summer of 1788, the exterior of the new dome was complete. It was constructed of timber and no metal nails were used in its construction and, to this day, it is held together by wooden pegs reinforced by iron straps forged by an Annapolis ironmonger.
Although the exterior of the dome was completed by 1788, the interior was not completed until 1797. Tragedy struck the project in 1793 when a plasterer named Thomas Dance fell to his death from the inside of the dome. By 1794, Joseph Clark was completely disillusioned with the project and left it to John Shaw, the noted Annapolis cabinetmaker, to oversee completion. Over the years, John Shaw did much of the maintenance work on the State House, built various items for it and, in 1797, made the desks and chairs which furnished the Old Senate Chamber.
The First Dome: 1769-1774
Just as the Articles of Confederation did not effectively govern the country, the first dome of the State House at Annapolis did not survive more than a decade of Maryland weather. In 1769, the General Assembly of Maryland passed an act to erect a new state house, securely covered with slate tile or lead. The architect was Joseph Horatio Anderson, and the undertaker or builder of the project was Charles Wallace. According to William Eddis in 1773, the work was carried on with great dispatch and when completed would “be equal to any public edifice on the American continent.”
The exact date of the completion of the first dome or cupola is not known but evidence suggests that it was completed by the year 1774. In a 1773 Act of Assembly, Charles Wallace was instructed to fix an iron rod pointed with silver or gold at least six feet above the cupola. The General Assembly also recommended that the roof be covered with copper because the slate originally specified would require frequent repairs and cause other inconveniences. According to Charles E. Peterson’s “Notes on Copper Roofing in America to 1802”, it was more than likely that local copper was put on the roof to advertise the new industry of Maryland.
The Second Dome: 1785-1794
According to the Intendent of Revenue, Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer, the first dome of the State House was a contradiction of architectural design. A survey of the timbers in 1784 revealed that they were so decayed by water damage that a new dome would be required.
“It was originally constructed contrary to all rules of architecture; it ought to have been built double instead of single, and a staircase between the two domes, leading up to the lanthorn. The water should have been carried off by eaves, instead of being drawn to the center of the building, to two small conductors, which are liableto be choked by ice, and overflowed by rains. That it was next to impossible, under present construction, that it could have been made tight”.
On February 24, 1785 Jenifer placed a notice in the Maryland Gazette for carpenters work to be made to the dome and roof under the execution of Joseph Clark
“The work We are a Doing is to put a Roof on the Governor’s House and we are going to take the Roof of the State house and it is a going to Raise it one story higher and the Doom is to be Sixty foot higher then the old one”.
Clark raised the pitch of the dome to facilitate the runoff of excess water, the chief reason the timbers rotted in the original dome.
“The Annapolis dome is in its proportions like the original Karlsruhe tower. Possibly its more classical feeling is a result of the universal trend of architectural styles rather than the influence of the altered Schloßturm. Yet the arched windows below the architrave in Annapolis, one with the lower part closed, are like the windows below the Architrave in Karlsruhe in all of which the lower parts are closed. The horizontal oval windows below the main curving section of the dome in Annapolis resemble the vertical ovals in the equivalent part of the Karlsruhe tower. The small square windows above the balustrades and the architraves themselves in both buildings are similarly placed.”