Clock

Clock

Any instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.

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Tempus fugit

Chronometry; Clock

Latin phrase meaning, "Time Flies". Seomtimes engraved on a decorative panel on the clock dial or a plaque attached to the clock case.

A mechanically operated model showing the revolution of the Earth around the sun, and of the moon around the Earth. An early example by Thomas Tompion and George Graham c. 1705 immediately preceded ...

Telleruhr

Chronometry; Clock

In the 17th century the pewter dish was a familiar household object. The shape must have suggested a clock dial, for in the 17th century clocks began to be made for hanging on the wall with dials in ...

Tavern clock

Chronometry; Clock

Another name for the large-dialled wall clock known as an Act of Parliament clock.

Synchronous clock

Chronometry; Clock

Synchronous clocks were developed in the United States by Henry E. Warren, who obtained his first patent in 1918. There was no general application for this type of clock until alternating-current ...

Synchronome clock

Chronometry; Clock

Frank Hope-Jones, in collaboration with George B. Bowell, devised the synchronome remontoire in 1895 after a visit to an exhibition to see an installation of a system of electric clocks devised by ...

Sympathetic clock

Chronometry; Clock

A term first applied to Abraham-Louis Breguet's clock, which had a receptacle into which a pocket watch designed for the purpose could be placed in the evening. The clock would then wind and reset ...