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Flying pendulum clock

Also referred to as an Ignatz clock, a novelty clock invented in 1883 and reproduced in the late 1950s. Hanging from an arm, a small ball on a thread acts as a pendulum by swinging in a horizontal circle and twisting and untwisting around vertical rods on each side of the clock.

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