Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The clock's face is a rippling 24-carat gold-plated stainless steel disc, about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in diameter. It has no hands or numerals, but displays the time by opening individual slits in the clock face backlit with blue LEDs; these slits are arranged in three concentric rings displaying hours, minutes, and seconds. Video
No Hands on the Clock is a 1941 American comedy mystery film directed by Frank McDonald starring Chester Morris as detective Humphrey Campbell. The cast also included Jean Parker and Rose Hobart . It was produced by Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures .
A wall clock showing the time at 10:09. A clock face is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays time through the use of a flat dial with reference marks, and revolving pointers turning on concentric shafts at the center, called hands.
Clock Without Hands is American author Carson McCullers' final novel. It was published on September 18, 1961 by Houghton Mifflin. Plot Set in ...
Christchurch Floral Clock: 8.5 m (28 ft) 1: No: 1953: Floral clock: New Zealand: Christchurch: Over 7000 plants are required each spring and autumn for the design [16] 24: Torrazzo of Cremona: 8.2 m (27 ft) 1: No: 1588: Tower Building: Italy: Cremona: Largest clock face in Italy and one of the largest astronomical clock faces in the world. 25 ...
In mechanical clocks a gear train drives the hands; in electronic clocks the circuit produces pulses every second which drive a stepper motor and gear train, which move the hands. Digital clocks display the time in periodically changing digits on a digital display. A common misconception is that a digital clock is more accurate than an analog ...
A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is an approximate harmonic oscillator: It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates.
The clock face with its clock positions is a heritage of Roman civilization, as is suggested by the survival of Roman numerals on old clocks and their cultural predecessors, sundials. The mechanical clock supplanted the sundial as the major timekeeper, while the Hindu–Arabic numeral system replaced the Roman as the number system in Europe in ...