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The escapement is a mechanism in a mechanical clock that maintains the swing of the pendulum by giving it a small push each swing, and allows the clock's wheels to advance a fixed amount with each swing, moving the clock's hands forward. The anchor escapement was so named because one of its principal parts is shaped vaguely like a ship's anchor.
In spring-driven clocks and watches, it required a fusee to even out the force of the mainspring. It was used in the first pendulum clocks for about 50 years after the pendulum clock was invented in 1656. In a pendulum clock, the crown wheel and staff were oriented horizontally, and the pendulum was hung from the staff.
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The Clock is a film by video artist Christian Marclay. It is a looped 24-hour video supercut ( montage of scenes from film and television) that feature clocks or timepieces. The artwork itself functions as a clock : its presentation is synchronized with the local time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual time.
Stephen Earl Wilhite [2] (March 3, 1948 – March 14, 2022) was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987. GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG (1996) became a widely supported alternative ...
The Corpus Clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Corpus Clock, also known as the Grasshopper clock, is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, at the junction of Bene't Street and Trumpington Street, looking out over King's Parade.
Clock Tower [c] is a point-and-click survival horror video game developed and published by Human Entertainment for the Super Famicom in 1995. It is the first installment in the Clock Tower series. The story follows orphan Jennifer Simpson soon after she is adopted by the Barrows family along with other orphaned girls.
The Cuckoo Clock (1986), by Mary Stolz and Pamela Johnson (illustrator). Cuckoo Clock (1986), by the writer Kavery Bhatt, art by Subir Roy. Cuckoo – Clock Cuckoo (1988), by the German illustrator and writer Annegert Fuchshuber. Sam Pig and the Cuckoo Clock (published in 1988), written by Alison Uttley and illustrated by Graham Percy.