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The calendar plate below the clock was replaced by a copy in 1880. The original made by Josef Mánes is stored in the Prague City Museum. [21] On the edge of the circle is a church calendar with fixed holidays and the names of 365 saints. The board displays allegories of the months. Smaller images represent zodiac signs.
The Gros-Horloge (English: Great-Clock) is a 14th century astronomical clock in Rouen, Normandy. [citation needed] The clock is installed in a Renaissance arch crossing the Rue du Gros-Horloge. The mechanism is one of the oldest in France, the movement having been made in 1389.
The 16th-century astronomical clock of the Torrazzo, the bell tower of Cremona Cathedral, is the largest medieval clock in Europe. Macerata. An astronomical clock installed in the Torre Civica , a modern replica of the original clock of 1571, which shows the orbits of the planets. Mantua.
The first known anchor escapement clock was built by the English clockmaker William Clement in 1671 for King's College, Cambridge, [131] now in the Science Museum, London. [132] The anchor escapement originated with Hooke, although it has been argued that it was invented by Clement, [133] or the English clockmaker Joseph Knibb. [132]
It is the third clock on that spot and dates from the time of the first French possession of the city (1681–1870). The first clock had been built in the 14th century and the second in the 16th century when Strasbourg was a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. The current, third clock dates from 1843. [1]
Jessop's Clock, San Diego, California, is a pendulum regulated multi-face town clock commissioned in 1905 by Joseph Jessop, a jewellery store owner in San Diego, California. 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 Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio was a complex astronomical clock built between 1348 and 1364 in Padova, Italy, by the doctor and clock-maker Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio. The Astrarium had seven faces and 107 moving parts; it showed the positions of the sun, the moon and the five planets then known, as well as religious feast days.
1327-1356: The first astronomical clock in Europe (before the famous prague astronomical clock, designed and engineered by Jan Sindel, a medieval Czech polymath and priest) came from medieval England, where it was designed and engineered by the Medieval English Polymath and abbot, Richard of Wallingford, whose contributions to mechanical ...