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Galileo Pendulum Clock Model, Replica

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After decades of experiments with the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

What is possibly the world's largest wooden tower clock is ticking away in Nannup

Contentedly ticking away in a specially built shed in Nannup, Western Australia is possibly the largest working wooden tower clocks in the world. Built predominantly of jarrah by local Kevin Bird, the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

World's largest wooden clock gives WA town hope of tourism revival

Four years into a 15-year journey that saw Kevin Bird build what is believed to be the world's largest wooden pendulum clock, he hit a major roadblock. A proposed civic centre that was supposed to ...
Forbes

The First Clock In America Failed, And It Helped Revolutionize Physics

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Comtoise watches, as seen here in the Comtoise Museum of master ...
The Verge

John Harrison’s ‘Clock B’ sets a world record over 250 years after it was designed

John Harrison, one of the world’s greatest clockmakers, claimed to have designed the perfect pendulum clock in the mid-18th century. Instead of being celebrated, Harrison’s plans were chastised and ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Local History: Brattleboro man famous for wooden clock-making hobby

BRATTLEBORO — When thinking of Charles Alvah Smith words that quickly come to mind are craftsmanship, curiosity and creativity. From 1931 to 1945 Smith handbuilt more than 600 wooden timepieces. Not ...