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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 Dorf- und Uhrenmuseum Gütenbach (English: Village and Clock Museum Gütenbach) is located in the village of Gütenbach, one of the historic centers of homebased manufacturing of clocks in the Black Forest region of Germany near the town of Furtwangen im Schwarzwald. It features primarily permanent and temporary exhibits on the local ...
Kamiguchi realised the unique cultural importance of daimyo clocks: "Because the Tokugawa shōguns closed the country, a pure Japanese-style clock was created. Like the ukiyoe woodblock prints , the importance of these clocks was recognised abroad, and the clocks have been bought up at cut-rate prices and taken away from the country right up to ...
The late 20th century Hans Lang clock, a one-of-a-kind, ultra-complicated, astronomical clock [7] One of the earliest electrically impulsed pendulum clocks, by Alexander Bain (United Kingdom, ca. 1845) [8] The unique astronomical clock made in 1787 by Benedictine priest Thaddãus Rinderle at St. Peter's Abbey in the Black Forest [9]
The astronomical clock of St. Nicholas Church, Stralsund (2012) The astronomical clock of St. Nicholas Church, Stralsund is a 14th century monumental astrolabe clock. It was probably damaged in the 16th century, and has not worked since then. It is the only clock of its kind to have been preserved almost entirely in its original condition.
The Ohio Clock is an 1815 clock in the United States Capitol; The Town Clock of Dubuque, Iowa is in a downtown clock tower, built in 1864. The Clock of the Nations, Rochester, New York was located at the Midtown Plaza in the 1960s. It had dioramas of 12 different nations. Every hour on the hour the dioramas opened up and music was played.
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