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Photo showing Jonas Bodingbauer's (AT) Smart Clock.
Jonas Bodingbauer (AT)
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
47 St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1897-98.
For the Public Benefit Boot Company.
By Gelder & Kitchen.
Junction of Printing Office Street.
Unlisted.
Labor Omni Vincit - Work Conquers All.
Sir William Alfred Gelder (1855-1941).
Llewellyn Kitchen (c1869-1948).
This shot of the Edinburgh clock tower, taken around 11 p.m., netted me a chatty but thorough interrogation from Scottish poiice assigned to keep anarchists in check during the G8 Summit conference.
Youghal Clock Gate Cloud Animation - www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyO4ZitS8T8 - Youghal Clock Gate Cloud Animation by Kieran McCarthy - www.midaza.com
Appropriate to our lives really - Mickey Mouse AND a pilot. Currently this clock is a source of fascination to Megan whenever she is in the kitchen - she stares at it, and her eyes move to follow the clock if we try to move her around. Simple things, simple minds.
Mon premier MOC !
L'Horloge indique les secondes, minutes et heures.
Le Coucou ( un perroquet lol ) est réglée pour se déclancher une fois par heure.
Par manque de pièces, elle n'a pas encore une grande autonomie, mais dure plusieurs minutes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sT909Uijpw
My first MOC !
The clock indicates the seconds, minutes and hours.
The Cuckoo ( a parrot lol ) is set to trigger once per hour.
For lack of parts, it still lacks a lot of autonomy, but lasts for several minutes.
Today's word is Shrewsbury clock, after Shrewsbury, a town in west UK. Earliest documented use: 1598.
NOTES: In Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1" John Falstaff claims that he and Hotspur "fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock" in the Battle of Shrewsbury. The term "Shrewsbury clock" here refers to a public clock as most people didn't have clocks at the time. The term "by a Shrewsbury clock" has come to imply exactly or precisely, sometimes with a hint of exaggeration or irony.
Learn more about today's word at: wordsmith.org/words/Shrewsbury_clock.html
Burning the Clocks lantern parade, seafront burning and fireworks in Brighton on the winter solstice of 21st of December 2017.
Part of a Set / Album: www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/albums/72157691314815482
www.samesky.co.uk/events/burning-the-clocks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_the_Clocks
I used an old Canon optical image stabilizer lens [EF-S 17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM] on an EOS 450D DSLR. With exposures of up to a 1/4 of a second, most of the images had to be discarded, and the remainder are very "grainy" / "noisy", but the pictures at least form a sort of record of the event...