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The clock is mounted on a three-tiered tower above the arcade between the Wildlife Center and the Children's Zoo. [2] The clock contains representations of animals playing instruments, with two chimpanzees ringing a bell, and plays music every half hour, at 0 and 30 minutes past the hour, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
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.
Cuckoo clock, a so-called Jagdstück ("hunt piece"), Black Forest, c. 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2006-013. A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, not typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close ...
The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and a few Caribbean islands. [1]In parts of that zone (20 states in the US, three provinces or territories in Canada, and several border municipalities in Mexico), the Central Time Zone is affected by two time designations yearly: Central Standard Time (CST) is observed from ...
A clock mechanism may be used to control a device according to time, e.g. a central heating system, a VCR, or a time bomb (see: digital counter). Such mechanisms are usually called timers . Clock mechanisms are also used to drive devices such as solar trackers and astronomical telescopes , which have to turn at accurately controlled speeds to ...
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Huygens first used a clock to calculate the equation of time (the difference between the apparent solar time and the time given by a clock), publishing his results in 1665. The relationship enabled astronomers to use the stars to measure sidereal time , which provided an accurate method for setting clocks.
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