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The Sweeney Clock is a 1908 clock installed near Houston's Tranquillity Park, in the U.S. state of Texas.The clock was originally installed outside the J.J. Sweeney & Co. jewellery store at the northeast corner of the intersection of Main Street and Prairie Street from 1908 to 1928.
Automaton clock in Gloucester. The figures striking the quarter hours and the chimes represent the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. They are (L–R) Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. In the centre is Old Father Time, who strikes the hours. Fortnum & Mason's automaton clock on the main facade, Piccadilly Circus.
A 1655 lantern clock, resting on a wall bracket, with its pendulum and driving-weight, Museum of Timekeeping, Upton Hall, England. The clock is wound by pulling down the length of cord with the ring, and raising the weight. [3] Lantern clocks were made almost entirely of brass, whereas most earlier clocks had been constructed from iron and wood.
National Time and Signal; Wixom, Michigan (1877–Present)(Introduces the world's first pneumatically controlled master clock system.) New England Clock Company; New Haven, Connecticut (1959–2000) New Haven Clock Company; New Haven, Connecticut (1853–1959) Parker & Whipple; Meriden, Connecticut (1795–1868)
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The Victorian era saw methods of communication and transportation develop significantly. In 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone invented the first telegraph system . This system, which used electrical currents to transmit coded messages, quickly spread across Britain, appearing in every town and post office.
Jubilee clock is a term used in reference to a number of clocks constructed and erected throughout the British Empire in commemoration of the Golden or Diamond Jubilee of various British monarchs, most commonly, Queen Victoria's. The Tolsey clock commemorates the Diamond Jubilee (60 years) of Queen Victoria's reign. The clock says "1837 - 1897".
The early Victorian era before the reforms of the 1840s became notorious for the employment of young children in factories and mines and as chimney sweeps. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Child labour played an important role in the Industrial Revolution from its outset: novelist Charles Dickens , for example, worked at the age of 12 in a blacking factory, with ...