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2. Salisbury Cathedral clock - Wikipedia

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   Salisbury Cathedral clock, restored. The Salisbury Cathedral clock is a large iron-framed tower clock without a dial, in Salisbury Cathedral, England.Thought to date from about 1386, it is a well-preserved example of the earliest type of mechanical clock, called verge and foliot clocks, and is said to be the oldest working clock in the world, [1] although similar claims are made for other clocks.

3. Comayagua cathedral clock - Wikipedia

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   The clock in 2022. The Comayagua cathedral clock, also known as the Arabic clock or the Comayagua clock, is a gear clock dated from the medieval times located in the city of Comayagua, in the Republic of Honduras. It is considered the oldest clock in the Americas and the oldest gear clock in the world still in operation since it has been ...

4. Bob Steele filmography - Wikipedia

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   American actor Bob Steele (Robert North Bradbury Jr. January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988), and his twin brother Bill were the sons of film director Robert N. Bradbury. [1] The twins began their acting career in the silent film The Adventures of Bill and Bob , directed by their father, and continued in a series of Bradbury Sr.'s film shorts.

5. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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   The tower clock of Norwich Cathedral constructed c. 1273 (reference to a payment for a mechanical clock dated to this year) is the earliest such large clock known. The clock has not survived. [ 95 ] The first clock known to strike regularly on the hour, a clock with a verge and foliot mechanism, is recorded in Milan in 1336. [ 96 ]

6. List of clocks - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. 10 of the Oldest Cities in the US

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   Long before the U.S. declared its independence on July 4, 1776, many European explorers had already founded lasting settlements. These are 10 of the oldest inhabited cities in the U.S. that you ...

8. Oldest living person in US credits straight-edge life of no ...

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   Francis was the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death. Naomi Whitehead recently became the oldest living person in North America at 114-years-old. St. Paul's Senior Living ...

9. World's oldest person, U.S.-born Spanish woman, dies at 117 ...

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   In the wake of Branyas's death, the oldest living person in the world is Japan's Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old, according to the U.S. Gerontology Research Group.