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Woodcut of medieval clockmaker, 1568 Lateral view of a Timothy Mason longcase clock movement with striking mechanism, c. 1730. A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and/or repairs clocks. Since almost all clocks are now factory-made, most modern clockmakers only repair clocks.
Other innovations in timekeeping during this period include the invention of the rack and snail striking mechanism for striking clocks by the English mechanician Edward Barlow, the invention by either Barlow or Daniel Quare, a London clock-maker, in 1676 of the repeating clock that chimes the number of hours or minutes, [140] and the deadbeat ...
The mistaken assumption that Hanuš was the maker is probably connected with his reconstruction of the Old Town Hall in the years 1470–1473. The clock stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times. The legend was used as the main plot in the 2008 animated film Goat story – The Old Prague Legends.
John Barwise (1780 or 1790–1842), English clock and chronometer maker. Josef Kossek (1780–1858), Czech clockmaker, Prague, precision pendulum clock. Benjamin Louis Vulliamy (1780–1854), , English clockmaker, turret clock, clocks, clockmaker of the court.
Gebr. Resch, Ebensee, Austria. Used trademark "REMEMBER". Factory began 1862 in Vienna, moved to Ebensee 1871. Produced up to 15,000 clocks in 1885. Factory sold to Junghans 1901 & renamed "Uhrenfabrik Ebensee Austria". Johann Mold, (c. 1870) Vienna. Example known: Serpentine Dwarf Case Vienna Regulator. No record found of this maker.
c. 3500 BC - Egyptian obelisks are among the earliest shadow clocks. [1] c. 1500 BC - The oldest of all known sundials, dating back to the 19th Dynasty. [2] c. 500 BC - A shadow clock is developed similar in shape to a bent T-square. [3] 3rd century BC - Berossos invents the hemispherical sundial. [4] 270 BCE - Ctesibius builds a water clock.
Clock brands (24 P) Clock manufacturing companies (8 C, 4 P) A. American clockmakers (1 C, 31 P) Clockmakers of the medieval Islamic world (4 P) B. Belgian ...
From the records held by the Derbyshire Record Office, Reference D37 M/T693-694: “The Crossells Farm, Stretton: Lease and release by Timothy Mason of Gainsborough (co. Lincoln) clock-maker and Elizabeth his wife , and John Clay of Hartsloft in the parish of Ault Hucknall yeoman to Hannah Holland o Ford widow of the Overclose in Stretton ...
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