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    A turret clock or tower clock is a clock designed to be mounted high in the wall of a building, usually in a clock tower, in public buildings such as churches...
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    Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers...
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    discovery of the Salisbury clock in 1928. Dating mistakes for old turret clocks are not uncommon. The Dover Castle clock was initially dated in the 14th...
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  • Look up clock tower in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A clock tower is an architectural structure housing a turret clock. Clock Tower may also refer...
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  • Dover Castle Clock is a turret clock from the beginning of the 17th century. It used to be in Dover Castle, and is now an exhibit in the Science Museum...
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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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    the first to shrink and adapt for his purpose a lantern gear, used in turret clocks and water wheels. This innovation allowed the device to resist the strength...
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    The Wells Cathedral clock is an astronomical clock in the north transept of Wells Cathedral, England. The clock is one of the group of famous 14th– to...
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    idea of a clock for the British Army and Royal Navy garrison at Halifax, to resolve tardiness in the garrison. He arranged for a turret clock to be manufactured...
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    Torre delle Ore, Lucca (category Clock towers in Italy)
    The Torre delle Ore or Torre dell'Orologio is a clock-tower or turret clock located on Via Fillungo in central Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. Medieval...
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  • building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding...
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    Grandfather clock Lantern clock Mantel clock Master clock Ogee clock Pillar clock Schoolhouse regulator Torsion pendulum clock Turret clock Vienna regulator...
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    telecommunication and horology, a slave clock is a clock that depends on another clock, the master clock. Modern clocks are synchronized through the Internet...
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    the Urania World Clock (German: Urania-Weltzeituhr), is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin...
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    clock network or clock system is a set of synchronized clocks designed to always show exactly the same time by communicating with each other. Clock networks...
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  • Sayler (1597–1668), German watchmaker, Ulm, rolling ball clock, turret clocks, table clocks. Nicolas Lemaindre (1598–1652), French clockmaker, Blois,...
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    Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (category Turret clock makers of the United Kingdom)
    specialised in mantel clocks, he began to concentrate on turret clocks. Succeeding to the business in 1811, he went on to erect clocks for several important...
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    master clock is a precision clock that provides timing signals to synchronise slave clocks as part of a clock network. Networks of electric clocks connected...
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    John Moore & Sons (category Turret clock makers of the United Kingdom)
    claimed that the number of house clocks made by the firm to January of that year was 15,180. It also lists numerous turret clocks, installed over the years in...
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    Thwaites & Reed (category Turret clock makers of the United Kingdom)
    The firm produced a catalogue of turret clocks and other items in 1878 claiming upward of 4,000 church and turret clocks made in their factory since the...
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    are music boxes, musical clocks, pianolas, barrel organs (including the typically Dutch large street organs) and a turret clock with a carillon, most of...
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    Croydon Clocktower (category Turret clocks)
    Croydon Clocktower is an arts and museum complex located on Katharine Street in Croydon, London. The venue, which forms part of the 19th-century Town Hall...
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    now in the Limca Book of Records for being the oldest working tower turret clock in India. Since 1970 it has been under the auspices of the Church of...
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    Watford High Street. The mechanism of the clock which was designed in 1610 by Leonard Tenant was removed from the turret of Cassiobury House and is now on public...
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    Honey Street to finish at the Turret Clock in Fore Street. The participant carrying the ball when it reaches the turret clock will receive a £10 reward from...
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  • running down by the more constant force of gravity acting on a weight. In turret clocks, it serves to separate the large forces needed to drive the hands from...
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    possessing what has been described as the oldest public clock in Ireland, and/or the oldest working turret clock in Ireland. In 1667, Michael Boyle, then serving...
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    England parish church of St Mary Magdalene has a Norman doorway and a turret clock that John Briant of Hertford made in 1792. The Oxfordshire Museum, the...
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    production of turret clocks. Domestic clocks and watches were mostly imported or the work of immigrants from the European continent. Because turret clock making...
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    Honey Street to finish at the Turret Clock in Fore Street. The participant carrying the ball when it reaches the turret clock will receive a £10 reward from...
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