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In 1950 Bud Collyer got the job which genuinely made him a household name: Beat the Clock, a game show that pitted couples (usually, but not exclusively, married) against the clock in a race to perform silly (sometimes messy) tasks, which were called "problems" but could with more accuracy be called "stunts." The grand prizes for these usually ...
In 1818 he invented and patented a type of mantel clock, known as the lighthouse clock and regarded as the first alarm clock produced in America. [6] Originally known as the "Patent Alarm Timepiece", they have become known as lighthouse clocks (a 20th-century term) for their obvious similarities.
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.
The invention of the verge and foliot escapement in c.1275 [87] was one of the most important inventions in both the history of the clock [88] and the history of technology. [89] It was the first type of regulator in horology. [6] A verge, or vertical shaft, is forced to rotate by a weight-driven crown wheel, but is stopped from rotating freely ...
A history student is inadvertently sent to 1348 England, at the beginning of the Black Death pandemic. 1995 The Hundred-Light-Year-Diary: Greg Egan: After the invention of a method for sending messages back in time, the history of the future becomes common knowledge, and every person knows their own fate. 1995 From Time to Time: Jack Finney
‘The History of the World, Part 2’ Cast on Working With Mel Brooks: ‘This Is a Man Who Gets Up and He’s Ready to Work’
It was invented by Simon Willard, originally of Grafton, Massachusetts, later of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and patented in 1802. [1] The banjo clock normally lacks a striking mechanism and indicates time only by its hands and dial, for which reason some horologists may insist upon calling it a timepiece rather than a true clock. In popular usage ...
The clock's design has changed little in the intervening years, with the first generation, manufactured from the 1930s–early 1950s having two paws and no bow tie, and newer models having four paws and a bow tie. [2] In the 1960s genuine crystals were added as accents to some clocks. The words "Kit-Cat" were added to the clock's face in 1982.