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X-wings with their s-foils locked in attack position as they assault the Death Star in Star Wars (1997 Special Edition) The T-65B X-wing was produced by the Incom Corporation, which had previously supplied the ARC-170 and Z-95 Headhunter starfighters to the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. When the Galactic Empire ordered them to ...
J. C. Deagan, Inc. is a former musical instrument manufacturing company that developed and produced instruments from the late 19th- to mid-20th century. It was founded in 1880 by John Calhoun Deagan and initially manufactured glockenspiels .
National Time and Signal; Wixom, Michigan (1877–Present)(Introduces the world's first pneumatically controlled master clock system.) New England Clock Company; New Haven, Connecticut (1959–2000) New Haven Clock Company; New Haven, Connecticut (1853–1959) Parker & Whipple; Meriden, Connecticut (1795–1868)
Gillett & Johnston's bell foundry, c.1920, showing molten metal being poured into a crucible Gillett & Johnston was a clockmaker and bell foundry based in Croydon , England from 1844 until 1957. Between 1844 and 1950, over 14,000 tower clocks were made at the works. [ 1 ]
The "fourth chime" was a variation of the standard three-segment version, which repeated the closing "C" chime, to become "G-E-C-C". It was initially adopted as a paging method for the New York City area, summoning employees listening at home to report for work at NBC headquarters in order to assist with an important developing story.
For the first two hundred years or so of the mechanical clock's existence, the verge, with foliot or balance wheel, was the only escapement used in mechanical clocks. In the sixteenth century alternative escapements started to appear, but the verge remained the most used escapement for 350 years until mid-17th century advances in mechanics ...
A repeater is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock that chimes the hours and often minutes at the press of a button. There are many types of repeater, from the simple repeater which merely strikes the number of hours, to the minute repeater which chimes the time down to the minute, using separate tones for hours, quarter hours, and ...
Clock towers that chimed on the hour appeared in Italy by the 13th century. [3] (p 173) They were common enough by the 15th century that, in 1463, Englishman John Baret willed funds to the sexton of St. Mary's Church so that he would "keep the clock, take heed to the chimes, [and] wind up the pegs and the plummets as often as need". [3] (p 111)