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  2. List of Foucault pendulums - Wikipedia

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    6 s New York: Bronx: Montefiore Medical Center: Buffalo: Buffalo Museum of Science: 75 ft (22.9 m) 100 lb (45 kg) 9.6 s Geneseo: State University of New York at Geneseo: 52 ft (15.8 m) 235 lb (107 kg) 8.0 s Ithaca: Cornell University, Rockefeller Hall Manhattan: United Nations General Assembly Building at the United Nations headquarters.

  3. National Watch and Clock Museum - Wikipedia

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    This clock took Engel about 20 years to complete, and it was shown for many years all around the United States starting in about 1877. The Engel clock disappeared in the early 1950s, and was found in a barn in New York State in 1983. The Engel clock was purchased and fully restored by the NAWCC in 1989 and is on display at the museum. [3]

  4. How two strangers found each other and solved the mystery of ...

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    They are now on display in Columbia, Pa., at the National Watch and Clock Museum. On July 26, the Allison family gathered at the museum for a reunion to celebrate the family watchmaker whose ...

  5. Gare d'Orsay - Wikipedia

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    The station design was the inspiration for the larger Penn Station in New York City when Alexander Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, traveled on his annual trip to Europe in 1901. The new railway line extension opened in 1900, linking Gare d'Austerlitz and Gare d'Orsay. The station opened to passenger traffic on 28 May 1900. [1] [2]

  6. List of museums in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

  7. Thuret family - Wikipedia

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    As one consequence there are numerous clocks by the Thuret dynasty in cases of rich tortoiseshell and brass marquetry designed by André Charles Boulle; one such remarkable clock by Jacques Thuret or his father is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [2] Another example, the Barometer Clock, is at the Frick Collection, also in New ...

  8. Pavillon de l'Horloge - Wikipedia

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    In the early 19th century, a clock (French: horloge) was placed on the attic level, giving the pavilion its current name. The western façade was comprehensively remodeled by Hector-Martin Lefuel in the 1850s during the Second Empire. that is when the name of Pavillon Sully (after Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully) was given to it.

  9. Main Concourse - Wikipedia

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    The cracked face was removed in the 1990s during the terminal's restoration. It was replaced with a replica; the original is now part of the New York Transit Museum collection. [26] Along with the rest of the New York Central Railroad system's clocks, it was formerly set to a clock in the train dispatcher's office at Grand Central. [28]