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    An electric clock is a clock that is powered by electricity, as opposed to a mechanical clock which is powered by a hanging weight or a mainspring. The...
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    similar mechanism not used in a timepiece. The electric clock was patented in 1840, and electronic clocks were introduced in the 20th century, becoming...
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    pulse-per-second output can be used to drive many kinds of clocks. In analog quartz clocks and wristwatches, the electric pulse-per-second output is nearly always transferred...
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    623  The home pendulum clock was replaced by less-expensive synchronous electric clocks in the 1930s and '40s. Pendulum clocks are now kept mostly for...
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    introducing the term chronometer. The electric clock, invented in 1840, was used to control the most accurate pendulum clocks until the 1940s, when quartz timers...
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    Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. He installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow...
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    A digital clock displays the time digitally (i.e. in numerals or other symbols), as opposed to an analogue clock. Digital clocks are often associated with...
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    Standard tire size was 7.00 (178) by 15 inches (381 millimetres). An electric clock was standard in 1947. A record 37,140 98s were sold in 1947. 1947 Oldsmobile...
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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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    astronomical clock was carried out from January to September 2018, following a reconstruction of the Old Town Tower. During the renovation, an electric clock mechanism...
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  • Telechron (category Clock manufacturing companies of the United States)
    Telechron is the name of a U.S. company that manufactured electric clocks between 1912 and 1992. "Telechron" is derived from the Greek words tele, meaning...
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    The Hammond Clock Company of Chicago (Illinois) produced electric clocks between 1928 and 1941. It was one of the ventures of Laurens Hammond, the inventor...
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    palette - and the Italian "orologio a palette" - Italian for "flip clock"). An electric motor (often synchronous, if directly connected to the AC line) turns...
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    output of the clocks, occur simultaneously. The predecessors of atomic clocks, computer clocks, and digital clocks, these electric clocks were synchronized...
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    clock was designed in 1944 by Hans Hilfiker, a Swiss engineer and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) employee, together with Moser-Baer [de], a Swiss clock...
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    Escapement (redirect from Hipp clock)
    67-77. ClockDoc. The Electric Clock Archive Hope-Jones, Frank. Electric Clocks. N.A.G. Press Limited. pp. 92, 174–180. "Synchronome Master Clock (circa...
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    and matte black sections as well as a special steering wheel and an electric clock, but not the higher compression engine nor the wheels or other performance...
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    included electric windows, reclining front seats, a wood rimmed steering wheel, radio with twin speakers, reversing lights and an electric clock. Power...
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    AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types (category Electric power in the United Kingdom)
    older public buildings in the UK, where they are used to feed AC electric wall clocks. They are smaller than conventional sockets, commonly being made...
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    company was one of the first to power its clocks with an electric motor instead of winding by hand. A patented clock mechanism automatically rewinds the main...
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    Tower is the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster in London, England. It contains the Great Clock of Westminster, a striking clock with five bells...
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  • miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the Electric Clock". He has also written some books on the advertising field such as Ogilvy...
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  • permanent working clocks with the largest faces in the world. Entries include all clocks with faces at least 4 m (13 ft) in diameter. Clocks can be located...
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    American inventor credited with invention of the first synchronous electric clock which kept time from the oscillations of the power grid in 1918 as well...
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    in right hand drive for export, and the only options listed were an electric clock, leather upholstery and a matched luggage set from Louis Vuitton. The...
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    traditional electric clocks) may have multi-pole permanent magnet external cup rotors, and use shading coils to provide starting torque. Telechron clock motors...
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    The Standard Electric Time Company was a Springfield, Massachusetts company founded in 1884, and was a manufacturer of synchronized clock systems and fire...
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  • Ansonia Clock Company, the New Haven Clock Company, the Seth Thomas Clock Company, the William L. Gilbert Clock Company, and the Waterbury Clock Company...
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    precise constant speed. These machines are commonly used in analog electric clocks, timers and related devices. In typical industrial sizes, the synchronous...
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    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...
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