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In Song dynasty China, an astronomical clock tower was designed by Su Song and erected at Kaifeng in 1088, featuring a liquid escapement mechanism. [2] In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3]
Typologically, the tower belongs to the Category II type of clock towers, characterized by two floors and classified as the second subvariant of the first variant of this type. [a] A watercolor drawing of the watchtower by Edward Lear (September 30, 1848) The tower's height varies depending on the terrain.
A turret clock or tower clock is a clock designed to be mounted high in the wall of a building, usually in a clock tower, in public buildings such as churches, university buildings, and town halls. As a public amenity to enable the community to tell the time, it has a large face visible from far away, and often a striking mechanism which rings ...
The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, or colloquially Old Joe, is a clock tower and campanile located in Chancellor's court at the University of Birmingham, in the suburb of Edgbaston. It is the tallest free-standing clock tower in the world, [ 1 ] although its actual height is the subject of some confusion.
Building apartments into the new tower was considered. (Preliminary drawing, 1903, John Galen Howard.) At 307 feet (94 m) tall, it is the second-tallest free-standing bell-and-clock-tower in the world. It includes seven principal floors and an eighth-floor observation deck 200 feet (61 m) above the base. [4]
108 Leonard (formerly known as 346 Broadway, the New York Life Insurance Company Building, and the Clock Tower Building) is a residential structure in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.
A drawing showing the original design and site of the Wellington clock tower (including the statue of Wellington) from the Illustrated London News of 17 June 1854. The Wellington clock tower was constructed as a memorial to the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the former British Army general and politician who died in 1852.
Pencil drawing of the clock tower and Kubelie mosque by Edward Lear (October 12, 1848). The walling of the three arched windows as well as the installation of the sundial (if we were to call it so) on the west face of the tower, are thought to have been added at a later time (before October 12, 1848, as depicted in Edward Lear's drawing).