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This building (1955-1959) is named after Bernard Bracken, former chairman of the Financial Times, which was published here until the 1980s. The building was among the first post-war buildings in the City to be listed and its redevelopment retained the entire outside facade, including the elegant astronomical clock approximately 1 metre in diameter bearing at its centre a face of Winston Churchill, a personal friend of Bernard Bracken.
The work of Philip Bentham in gilt metal and enamel, it has echoes of the formality and sophistication of a dial. Embellished with Roman numerals, it depicts months of the year, signs of the zodiac and a sunburst motif.
Once again we have to go through the half-yearly rigmarole of re-setting the clocks. I wish we would have just one time throughout the year. Back in the early seventies this was tried with British Standard Time - which was one hour ahead of GMT. The problem was that winter mornings were pretty dark, especially in the north of Scotland. However, overall road casualties were reduced as the lighter evenings were safer.
Like most people I have so many clocks around the house now - some of which set themselves - and while this one (quaint isn't it) is effected by turning a little wheel inside, others, like the 'phone, require me to find and follow a series of rather complex instructions.
Bought a programmed micro from www.clock-it.net/led_clocks/index.html and made up circuit board to hold the surface mount LED's.
This is a longer exposure, so quite a few of the LED's have lit up.
Update: check out the new clocks, with a manufactured board!
The fringe is hyperbolic, with wire inside to make it more formable.
The yarn is from my stash but I bought the clock.
Nusretiye Clock Tower, aka Tophane Clock Tower, is a clock tower situated in Tophane, a neighborhood in Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey next to Nusretiye Mosque and Tophane Kiosk at the European waterfront of Bosphorus. It was ordered by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I (1823-1861), and constructed by the renowned Ottoman Armenian architect Garabet Amira Balyan in 1848.
Designed in neo-classical style, the four-sided, three-story clock tower is 15 m high. A tughra of Sultan Abdülmecid I is put on above the entrance. The original clock and the clock face are in a state of disrepair. The clock tower along with Nusretiye Mosque and the Tophane Kiosk survived urban renewal and highway construction program mid 1950s. However, it remained within the customs warehouse area of Istanbul Port, cut off from the public access today.
After the British Car Show in Downtown Safety Harbor on Saturday, October 24, 2015, I had the opportunity to photograph both the Safety Harbor Fountain and Clock. These are located at the Veterans Memorial Park at the corner of Bayshore Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Lane.
boarduino clock, with 16MHz resonator replaced with 32.768KHz watch crystal, 2x16 lcd, 10k pot for contrast control, and 2n3904 transistor to drive the lcd backlight. by way of contrast a standard boarduino with 16MHz oscillator installed is shown at the top of the picture.
The Bundy clock was an American invention used by transport companies to monitor timekeeping. The driver would have to insert a key at the stop in order to record his progress on a paper tape. The letters BCT stand for Birmingham City Transport, and these clocks date back to the tram era. As I recall, this one was still in use in 1974 on the Outer Circle bus route, which also featured some of the oldest buses still running then. There's more on this unusual relic at this blog thebeautyoftransport.com/2017/01/18/obscure-objects-of-tr...
As part of Light Night the Civic Hall in Leeds was projected to look like a Giant Potts Clock
Canon EOS 60D and Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8
Raw Conversion Adobe Camera Raw 8.1
Post Processing Photoshop CS6
"Time is a cruel thief to
rob us of our former selves.
We lose as much to life as
we do to death. "
-Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Bla. School tomorrow.