A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term originated with small weight-driven pendulum clocks...
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more unified development from a wall-mounted bracket clock standing upon its separate, complementary bracket characteristic of the Régence (1715–23), which...
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A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals...
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larger pendulum bracket clock. The factory of Armand Couaillet, in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont, France, made thousands of carriage clocks between 1880 and...
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A balloon clock is a bracket clock with a waisted or balloon-shaped case. It was popular in England from the late 18th to the early 19th century. It is...
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(Bahnhäusle style clocks) and they could be mantel, wall or bracket clocks. However, the popular house-shaped Bahnhäusleuhr ("railway-house clock") virtually...
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A lantern clock is a type of antique weight-driven wall clock, shaped like a lantern. They were the first type of clock widely used in private homes....
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(Fleet St. London) Active 1691 - 1723. Bracket clock examples exist. Sir John Bennett; 65 Cheapside, London, watch, clock and jewellery manufacturer (15 October...
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clock, Simon Willard brought the design further, designing the similar Massachusetts shelf clock which was related to the traditional bracket clocks....
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basketball tournament Bracket turn, a figure skating move Tax bracket (or income bracket) Bracket clock Bracketing (disambiguation) Bracketing, the photographic...
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Parliament clock Anniversary clock (uses a torsion pendulum) Banjo clock Bracket clock Cartel clock Comtoise or Morbier clock Crystal regulator Cuckoo clock Grandfather...
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and the Kremlin Clock in Moscow. Home striking clocks, such as mantel clocks, cuckoo clocks, grandfather clocks and bracket clocks are also very common...
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to the south. A Louis XV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry bracket clock with conforming bracket hung on the wall of the study. It was signed by Laurent...
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made turret clocks such as those for York Minster (much modified over the years) and the Bar Convent in York. One of his bracket clocks may also be seen...
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Electric Time Company (category Clock manufacturing companies of the United States)
clocks annually and is the largest maker of custom outdoor clocks in the United States. Electric Time produces tower clocks, post clocks, and bracket...
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Black Forest clockmakers (redirect from Clock production in the Black Forest)
clocks that chimed the hours, the bracket clock and the grandfather clock. A cuckoo clock (Kuckucksuhr) A figurine clock (Figurenuhr) A flute clock (Flötenuhr)...
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Joseph Windmills (category Clock manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom)
seventeenth century London, producing a large number of lantern clocks, bracket clocks, longcase clocks and pocket watches. His earliest watch, displayed in the...
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arrests only three items have been recovered: two clocks, including a Benjamin Vulliamy bracket clock which aroused the suspicions of an auctioneer; and...
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Animal gut was used to make the cord lines in longcase clocks and for fusee movements in bracket clocks, but may be replaced by metal wire. The oldest known...
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a very fine clock for the king, which went for a year without rewinding. Being specially made for a bedroom, it did not strike. The clock still stands...
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Verge escapement (section Verge and foliot clocks)
is seen only in antique or antique-replica timepieces. Many original bracket clocks have their Victorian-era anchor escapement conversions undone and the...
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The Salisbury Cathedral clock is a large iron-framed tower clock without a dial, in Salisbury Cathedral, England. Thought to date from about 1386, it is...
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Salar Jung Museum (section Clocks)
musical clock Salar Jung bought from Cook and Kelvey of England. The variety of clocks includes the bird cage clocks, bracket clocks, grandfather clocks, skeleton...
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Simon Willard (redirect from Simon Willard's Tall Clocks)
smallest clock of the time was the bracket clock, which influenced Simon's gallery clock, which he patented in 1802. His next creation was the shelf clock, which...
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World War I. The Telford Theatre also holds a twin fusee Grand Sonnerie Bracket Clock made by the famous clockmaker Thomas Tompion, who is buried in Westminster...
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colonial government. The red brick building is noted for its towering bracket clock and columned portico, with architectural adaptations to tropical weather...
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Oxfordshire. He produced various clocks and watches including bracket clocks, lantern clocks, longcase clocks, and some wall-clocks, as well as building and maintaining...
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division and bracket. All Macker tournaments are double-elimination, with winners' and losers' brackets, plus a consolation "Toilet Bowl Bracket" for teams...
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plaster beams. The room is white with some gilding. An early 18th-century bracket clock sits in the centre of the porphyry table. The Statue Gallery: Is a tripartite...
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Edward East (clockmaker) (section Clocks and watches)
Exhibition a clock-watch made by East in silver pierced cases. The Wetherfield collection also contained four long-case clocks and one bracket clock by East...
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