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Eine Dampfuhr ist eine mit Dampfkraft betriebene Uhr. Die weltweit erste Dampfuhr steht im historischen Stadtteil Gastown im Zentrum Vancouvers in Kanada.Die Straßenuhr mit Zifferblättern auf allen vier Seiten besitzt einen mechanischen Pendelmechanismus. Dieser wird durch einen Paternoster und das Gewicht von umlaufenden Kugeln angetrieben. Die Kugeln werden von einer Dampfmaschine im Inneren der Uhr wieder nach oben befördert. Der Wasserdampf mit niedrigem Druck stammt aus der Fernheizung des Stadtviertels.
Das Spielwerk der Uhr besteht aus fünf Dampfpfeifen, von denen die größte – in der Mitte des Aufbaus – zur vollen Stunde spielt. Die vier anderen Pfeifen spielen zu jeder Viertelstunde den Westminsterschlag .
Die Uhr sieht alt aus,ist aber aus dem Jahre 1977.
Gastown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Interior of the Water Street steam clock, powered by a steam engine. Only a few functioning steam clocks exist, most designed and built by Canadian horologist Raymond Saunders.
Although they are often styled to appear as 19th-century antiques, steam clocks are a more recent phenomenon. Raymond Saunders' Gastown steam clock was built in 1977 at the corner of Cambie and Water streets in Vancouver.
The clock displays the time on four faces and announces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the Westminster Quarters.
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Likely the most photographed object in vancouver. I have never walked past it, day or night, without seeing someone pointing a camera at it. It is gastown's famous steamclock.
I shot it with five bracketed exposures, used Photomatix to create the HDR, then tonemapped it and finished it off with a sepiatone treatment.
Vancouver Gastown Foggy Winter looking westwards on Water Street at Cambie Street with the famous steam-powered clock and the Harbour Centre tower looming in the background and it's circular revolving restaurant and observation level. The image is made of a tone-mapped overlay consisting of 3 bracketed +2/-2 and normally exposed JPEG photos using the Adobe Photoshop CS5 with Nik HDR EFX 2 software workflow to render the final image seen here with rich highlight and shadow details. _MG_0868_HDR
Yup, back at the steam clock in Gastown Vancouver BC. The young girl on the left may also have had enough of the clock. The rest of the family are waiting for it to blow off steam.
For a bit of background on the clock.
From Wikipedia:
A steam clock is a clock which is fully or partially powered by a steam engine. Only a few functioning steam clocks exist, most designed and built by Canadian horologist Raymond Saunders for display in urban public spaces. Steam clocks built by Saunders are located in Otaru, Japan; Indianapolis, USA; and the Canadian cities of Vancouver, Whistler and Port Coquitlam, all in British Columbia. Steam clocks by other makers are installed in St Helier, Jersey and at the Chelsea Farmers' Market in London, England.
Although they are often styled to appear as 19th-century antiques, steam clocks are a more recent phenomenon inspired by the Gastown steam clock built by Saunders in 1977.
As an aside, Ray Saunders is an acquaintance and he is a history book himself on clocks of all types.
Light snow falls on Vancouver's famous steam clock in the Gastown district.
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Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B.I. ("Burrard Inlet"). The official boundary does not include most of Hastings Street except for the Woodward's and Dominion Buildings, and stretches east past Columbia St., to the laneway running parallel to the west side of Main Street.
Gastown is a mix of "hip" contemporary fashion and interior furnishing boutiques, tourist-oriented businesses (generally restricted to Water Street), restaurants, nightclubs, poverty and newly upscale housing. In addition, there are law firms, architects and other professional offices, as well as computer and internet businesses, art galleries, music and art studios, and acting and film schools.
The Gastown Steam Clock:
Gastown's most famous (though nowhere near oldest) landmark is the steam-powered clock on the corner of Cambie and Water Street. It was built in 1977 to cover a steam grate, part of Vancouver's distributed steam heating system, as a way to harness the steam and to prevent street people from sleeping on the spot in cold weather. Its original design was faulty and it had to be powered by electricity after a breakdown. The steam mechanism was completely restored with the financial support of local businesses as it had become a major tourist attraction, and is promoted as a heritage feature although it is of modern invention.
The steam used is low pressure downtown-wide steam heating network (from a plant adjacent to the Georgia Viaduct) that powers a miniature steam engine in its base, in turn driving a chain lift. The chain lift moves steel balls upward, where they are unloaded and roll to a descending chain. The weight of the balls on the descending chain drives a conventional pendulum clock escapement, geared to the hands on the four faces. The steam also powers the clock's sound production, with whistles being used instead of bells to produce the Westminster "chime" and to signal the time.
In October 2014 the clock was temporarily removed for major repairs by its original builder, and should have been reinstalled by January 2015.
The Gastown Steam Clock appears on the cover of the 2011 Nickelback album Here and Now and is also featured in a scene from the 1991 Chuck Norris action film The Hitman.
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John Deighton (November 1830 – May 23, 1875), generally known as "Gassy Jack", was a Canadian bar owner who was born in Hull, England. The Gastown neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia is named after him.
Growing up in Hull, a major seaport, Deighton and his brothers Tom and Richard learned to sail. Tom and Richard apprenticed on British ships, but Jack did not receive that opportunity. However, this meant he could switch to sailing on U.S. ships. When the California Gold Rush hit, ships were in demand to transport cargo and people from New York to San Francisco. In 1850, this voyage around Cape Horn took 140–160 days. Deighton signed up to work a new clipper Invincible[1] that could sail 400 miles a day and made the trip in only 115 days. The next journey was to Hong Kong. Deighton was 21 years old and Third Officer. Next, Deighton visited family at home in England and then returned to the U.S., never returning to England again.
Next, Deighton worked a gold claim in California, along with many others, until February 1858 when there was news of gold further north in a British territory known as New Caledonia. The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush had begun and Deighton sailed north along with thousands of others. The harsh winter took its toll on the prospectors but Deighton stayed for 5 years. He found no gold, though others did. New Caledonia was now the Colony of British Columbia. Traffic on the Fraser River was increasing as more miners arrived, but so far only American steamers were able to travel beyond Langley. Local boats were built to meet this need and Deighton piloted steamships and sternwheelers on the Fraser River for several years.
By 1864, Deighton was forced to pursue other lines of work as he developed health problems (swelling of the legs and feet).
Between 1862 and 1867, he ran a bar called the Globe Saloon in New Westminster, British Columbia. It was quite prosperous due to the Cariboo Gold Rush. But in 1867 when Deighton went out of town to visit the hot mineral springs near Harrison Lake, he entrusted the bar to an old shipmate, an American. On July 4 the celebrations got out of hand and Deighton returned to find his business ruined.
In 1867, Deighton opened a bar on the south side of Burrard Inlet at the behest of his old friend, Captain Edward Stamp, the owner of the Hastings Mill. He later named it the Globe Saloon in memory of his previous bar in New Westminster. He came to the area with little more than $6 to his name, a few simple pieces of furniture, his native wife (whose name has been lost to the years), and a yellow dog. The bar was built by idle sawmill workers in exchange for all the whiskey they could drink in one sitting (the nearest drinking hole was 25 miles away).
His patrons were mainly sailors and workers from the nearby sawmill. When business dwindled there, Deighton tried to acquire 20 waterfront acres near Moody's Mill and build a new saloon there. The local natives protested and the Governor agreed - Deighton went back to his previous bar, the Globe Saloon. This bar was demolished when the townsite of Granville was established. Deighton bought a nearby lot for $135 at the south-west corner of Carrall and Water Streets, where he built Deighton House.
Deighton's native wife died. Before she died she arranged for Deighton to marry her 12-year-old niece Quahail-ya, also known as Madeline or Matrine. In 1871 she gave birth to Richard Mason Deighton. Jack's brother Tom Deighton and his wife took over the business in 1873 and Jack returned to working the steamship that plied the Fraser River, this time as a Captain of the steamer Onward. However, after a family quarrel a few months later, Jack resumed management of the saloon and operated it until he became ill and died at the age of 44 on May 23, 1875. He is interred at the Fraser Cemetery in New Westminster, British Columbia.
Deighton was known as Gassy Jack because of his talkative nature and his penchant for storytelling. The name stuck and the area around his bar is now known as Gastown.
He was succeeded by his son with Quahail-ya, Richard, who was derisively nicknamed the "Earl of Granville". Richard died before Jack's meager estate (about $300) was probated. Quahail-ya returned to the North Shore and married "Big William". She outlived him too, and died August 10, 1948, aged 90.
The Deighton House was later burned in the Great Vancouver Fire of June 1886.
In honour of Jack Deighton, the Gassy Jack statue stands in Maple Tree Square, in Gastown.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 at the corner of Cambie and Water streets in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood. Although the clock is now owned by the City of Vancouver, funding for the project, estimated to be about $58,000 CDN, was provided by contributions from local merchants, property owners, and private donors. Incorporating a steam engine and electric motors, the clock displays the time on four faces and announces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the Westminster Quarters. The clock produces a puff of steam from its top on the hour.
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I braved the wild rain and wind last night and ventured thru Gastown. The rain doesn't seem to stop the party goers.
The Vancouver steam clock in located in the Gastown portion of the city. It toots a merry little toon every hour. I'll post a video of this so you can hear for yourself. A few years ago Vancouver, BC was voted the best city to live in the world.
Quick shot stop at Steam Clock, Gastown, Vancouver, BC.
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Vancouver's Steam Clock is located in the Gastown district at the corner of Water and Cambie Streets. It was built in 1977 by horologist Raymond Saunders and metalwork specialist Doug Smith.
Every quarter hour, the Steam Clock whistles a portion of the Westminster Chime.
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Tourist with an iPad taking a photo of the Steam Clock at the corner of Cambie & Water Streets in Vancouver BC.
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Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside.
Gastown is a mix of "hip" contemporary fashion and interior furnishing boutiques, tourist-oriented businesses (generally restricted to Water Street), restaurants, nightclubs, poverty and newly upscale housing. In addition, there are law firms, architects and other professional offices, as well as computer and internet businesses, art galleries, music and art studios, and acting and film schools.
The steam clock commemorates the the coal miners and their pit ponies who mined coal in the Megalong Valley from 1883 to 1895.
It’s an unusual event where the audience sings Waltzing Matilda, but that’s the tune the clock plays so that was the theme of the singalong at Scenic World last Friday. The occasion was the unveiling of Australia’s only steam-driven clock.
It was commissioned by former managing director of the attraction, Philip Hammon, a clock fanatic, and built by Canadian Raymond Saunders. The clock is driven by a miniature engine powered by steam produced in the Scenic World workshop and piped underground for 70 metres. Every 10 minutes, the engine winds the clock by pulling tiny coal skips up a railway incline. The weight of the skips drives the clockwork mechanism.
The design is based on the original railway built to haul coal up from the rainforest floor to the clifftop at the Katoomba site. Twelve brass whistles on the top play sections of Waltzing Matilda on the quarter-hour and the whole shebang on the hour. Mr Hammon, who has 47 clocks in his personal collection, said he was inspired after seeing a steam-powered clock in the historic Gastown precinct of Vancouver some years ago. “We already had steam at Scenic World for our natural gas-fired boilers [and] that will now supply the clock with the required steam for operation.”
Mr Saunders, of Landmark Clocks International, said it was the seventh steam clock he had built and it took him almost five years. “It was one of my most challenging jobs but I loved it. I trust this clock will stand the test of time,” he said. The steam clock is in a new public observation area opposite the attraction’s entry.
The site on the edge of St. Helier harbour is on land reclaimed from the sea in the 1920s. The area had stood derelict for some time and when a nearby warehouse was converted to a maritime museum it was decided to renovate this area as well.
The first ever steam clock was built in the 19th Century to demonstrate the versatility of steam power. Very few have ever been built, and usually for display in urban public spaces. The fact that it is near to the maritime museum it seemed appropriate to have a nautically inspired art work in the area and it celebrates the first steam paddle steamer in Jersey.
When it was first built in 1997 it was steam powered, but it has since been converted to use electric power.
The clock face it self is very plain with a white face and simple numerals. It is mounted between the twin funnels on the top deck of the boat.
There is another clock face on the front of the steam boiler showing the times of the various watches that operate on a ship. However this does not actually work it is just to make the art work more realistic.
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Gastown's most famous (though nowhere near oldest) landmark is the steam-powered clock on the corner of Cambie and Water Street. It was built in 1977 to cover a steam grate, part of Vancouver's distributed steam heating system, as a way to harness the steam and to prevent street people from sleeping on the spot in cold weather. Its original design was faulty and it had to be powered by electricity after a breakdown. The steam mechanism was completely restored with the financial support of local businesses as it had become a major tourist attraction, and is promoted as a heritage feature although it is of modern invention.
The steam used is low pressure downtown-wide steam heating network (from a plant adjacent to the Georgia Viaduct) that powers a miniature steam engine in its base, in turn driving a chain lift. The chain lift moves steel balls upward, where they are unloaded and roll to a descending chain. The weight of the balls on the descending chain drives a conventional pendulum clock escapement, geared to the hands on the four faces. The steam also powers the clock's sound production, with whistles being used instead of bells to produce the Westminster "chime" and to signal the time.
In October 2014 the clock was temporarily removed for major repairs by its original builder, and should have been reinstalled by January 2015.
The Gastown Steam Clock appears on the cover of the 2011 Nickelback album Here and Now and is also featured in a scene from the 1991 Chuck Norris action film The Hitman.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 at the corner of Cambie and Water streets in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood. Although the clock is now owned by the City of Vancouver, funding for the project, estimated to be about $58,000 CDN, was provided by contributions from local merchants, property owners, and private donors. Incorporating a steam engine and electric motors, the clock displays the time on four faces and announces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the Westminster Quarters. The clock produces a puff of steam from its top on the hour.
One of less than ten operational steam clocks on this planet. This was my first time being down here in a decade.
Its quarter to three,
There's no one in the place 'cept you and me
So set 'em up Joe
I got a little story I think you oughtta' know
Were drinking my friend
To the end of a brief episode
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
I love this tune and way this guy sings it. ;)
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Installed 1997 on a replica of part of the Ariadne paddle steamer of 1824. Commissioned by the Waterfront Enterprise Board, now the responsibility of Ports of Jersey. St Helier, Jersey.
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The famous Gastown Steam Clock was created by horologist Raymond Saunders, owner of The Gastown Steam Clock Company just opposite the clock. Built it in 1977, based on an 1875 design, it is the world’s only steam clock. It is powered by steam which comes from an underground system of pipes that supply steam to heat many downtown Vancouver buildings.
But the clock is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
"It was my first effort at building a clock, and I didn't really know what I was doing. But it turned out pretty good, and I'm very proud of how popular the clock is today."
Since then he has created a few more for cities worldwide, including Whistler, Port Coquitlam, Indianapolis, and Otaru, Japan.
Day 327 - Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 as a tourist attraction for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver.
A steam clock is a clock which is fully or partially powered by a steam engine. Only a few functioning steam clocks exist, most designed and built by Canadian horologist Raymond Saunders for display in urban public spaces. Steam clocks built by Saunders are located in Otaru, Japan; Indianapolis, USA; and the Canadian cities of Vancouver, Whistler and Port Coquitlam, all in British Columbia. Steam clocks by other makers are installed in St Helier, Jersey and at the Chelsea Farmers' Market in London, England.
Although they are often styled to appear as 19th-century antiques, steam clocks are a more recent phenomenon inspired by the Gastown steam clock built by Saunders in 1977. One exception is the steam clock built in the 19th century by Birmingham engineer John Inshaw to demonstrate the versatility of steam power.
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