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A Gustav Becker clock. Gustav Eduard Becker (May 2, 1819 in Oels , Silesia - September 17, 1885 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German clockmaker and founder of the brand Gustav Becker. [ 1 ]
Gustav Becker Clock Company; Freiburg in Schlesien, Silesia (1850–1938) Florn; Thomas Haller (Thomas Haller AG), Schwenningen (1880-1900) then merged with Junghans; Thomas Ernst Haller (Haller AG), Schwenningen (1902-1928) then merged with Kienzle; Haller Uhrenfabrik GmbH, Simonswald (1874–present)
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Later manual-start clocks had ratchets or other linkages which prevented backwards starting. The invention of the shaded-pole motor allowed self-starting clocks to be made, but since the clock would then restart after a power outage, the clock would give incorrect time instead of being stopped at the time of power interruption.
A mechanical movement contains all the moving parts of a watch or clock except the hands, and in the case of pendulum clocks, the pendulum and driving weights. The movement is made of the following components: [2] Power source Either a mainspring, or a weight suspended from a cord wrapped around a pulley.
In 1887, the company reorganized under the new name Western Clock Company and again went bankrupt, and F. W. Matthiessen reorganized it in 1888 as the Western Clock Manufacturing Company. In 1908, the company received a patent for the "Big Ben" alarm clock movement.
Telechron alarm clocks are particularly popular with collectors. Until about 1940, the overwhelming majority of Telechron alarm clocks had bell alarms. The entire mechanism was enclosed in a bell housing of steel. Atop the clock's coil was a metal strip that vibrated at 60 cycles per second when the alarm was tripped.
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