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The Hammond Clock Company was founded in 1928 to produce and market clocks that were equipped with Hammond's new motor. The Hammond clock factory manufactured more than 100 different clock models, some simple and cheap, others made from expensive materials such as marble and onyx. [4] Hammond employed well-paid toolmakers who created ...
Sir John Bennett; 65 Cheapside, London, watch, clock and jewellery manufacturer (15 October 1814- 3 July 1897), was a watchmaker and local politician. He was the eldest son of John Bennett, watchmaker, of Greenwich.
Laurens Hammond was born in Evanston, Illinois, on January 11, 1895 [1] to William Andrew and Idea Louise Strong Hammond. [2] Laurens showed his great technical prowess from an early age. His father, William, took his own life in January 1897, ostensibly due to failure of the First National Bank of Illinois, which he had founded.
Early time clock, made by National Time Recorder Co. Ltd. of Blackfriars, London at Wookey Hole Caves museum A Bundy clock used by Birmingham Corporation Transport. An early and influential time clock, sometimes described as the first, was invented on November 20, 1888, by Willard Le Grand Bundy, [4] a jeweler in Auburn, New York.
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 steam also powers the clock's sound production, with whistles being used instead of bells to produce the Westminster "chime" and to signal the time. Steam engine in the clock. The steam engine that originally ran the clock is a Stuart #4 single expansion double acting 1" piston engine. [8]
A modern LF radio-controlled clock. A radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC), and often colloquially (and incorrectly [1]) referred to as an "atomic clock", is a type of quartz clock or watch that is automatically synchronized to a time code transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock.