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In 1826, Thomas Jefferson requested that Simon Willard build a clock for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. The clock was to be a turret one and would be placed into the university's rotunda. Jefferson provided all of the clock's plans and specifications. According to these plans, Willard precisely assembled all the clock's pieces.
Texas: Austin: Science Engineering Comp [73] Austin: University of Texas at Austin, DEV Building [85] [86] 40 ft (12 m) 240 lb 7 s College Station: Texas A&M University, George P. Mitchell Physics Building [87] [88] 85 ft (26 m) 235 lb: 10.23 s College Station: Texas A&M University, Zachry Engineering Center (removed; year unknown) Houston
Sometimes inventions are invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a more practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first known working version of the invention is used here.
The Hail Flutie game, also known as the Miracle in Miami, is a college football game in 1984 that took place between the Boston College Eagles and the Miami Hurricanes on November 23. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It has been regarded by FOX Sports writer Kevin Hench as among the most memorable moments in sports.
The longcase clock (also known as the grandfather clock) was created to house the pendulum and works by the English clockmaker William Clement in 1670 or 1671. It was also at this time that clock cases began to be made of wood and clock faces to use enamel as well as hand-painted ceramics. In 1670, William Clement created the anchor escapement ...
There is a fusee in the earliest surviving spring-driven clock, a chamber clock made for Philip the Good in c. 1430. [109] Leonardo da Vinci , who produced the earliest known drawings of a pendulum in 1493–1494, [ 110 ] illustrated a fusee in c. 1500, a quarter of a century after the coiled spring first appeared.
A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism called a torsion pendulum. This is a weighted disk or wheel, often a decorative wheel with three or four chrome balls on ornate spokes, suspended by a thin wire or ribbon called a torsion spring (also ...
Robert Cade was born in San Antonio, Texas, on September 26, 1927. [2] He was a fourth-generation Texan. [3] Cade took an early interest in athletics and ran the mile in four minutes, twenty seconds at Brackenridge High School, [2] a very respectable time for a high school athlete in the early 1940s. [4]