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Sather Tower is a bell tower with clocks on its four faces on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It is more commonly known as The Campanile ( / ˌ k æ m p ə ˈ n iː l i , - l eɪ / KAMP -ə- NEE -lee, -lay , also US : / ˌ k ɑː m -/ KAHMP - ) for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice .
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
The Nagoya Clock Tower is a clock tower in Los Angeles' Civic Center, in the U.S. state of California. The clock was gifted by the people of Nagoya to those of Los Angeles in 1984, on the 25th anniversary of the Sister City program.
In 1983 the clock and chimes were rehoused in the current clock tower. The clock mechanism still needs to be hand-cranked twice a week. In 1997, a new temperature-compensating pendulum designed by engineering students was installed to eliminate errors in time-keeping caused by temperature changes. [3]
"When you approach it you just seem to see right through it," wrote a reporter for the Van Nuys News in 1941. ... His favorite is the World Clock, which tracks time in 24 different time zones ...
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