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  2. Kit-Cat Klock - Wikipedia

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    The words "Kit-Cat" were added to the clock's face in 1982. The original clocks were AC-powered, but due to scarcity of American-made AC motors, the clock was redesigned for battery power in the late 1980s. [3] The manufacturer estimates that an average of one clock has been sold every three minutes for the last 50 years. [4]

  3. Electric clock - Wikipedia

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    This was the mechanism used in the first electric clocks, and is found in antique electric pendulum clocks. It is also found in a few modern decorative mantel and desk clocks. Synchronous clocks These rely on the 50 or 60 Hz utility frequency of the AC electric power grid as a timing source, by driving the clock gears with a synchronous motor ...

  4. List of clock manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Lenzkirch Clock Co (Aktiengessellschaft fur Ukrenfabrikation) (1851-1929) factory operated by Junghans 1929-1932; Mauthe Clock Company (c1870 - 1976) Jakob Schlenker Grusen, Schwenningen (JSGUS/ISGUS) (1888–present) Johannes Schlenker, Schwenningen (1822-1883) then Schlenker and Kienzle (1883-1897) then Kienzle

  5. Simon Willard - Wikipedia

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    The farm, now operated as the Willard House and Clock Museum, had been built in 1718 by the Willards' third American generation. When Simon Willard was born, the house had just one room. The elder brother, Benjamin, who was 10 years older than Simon, learned horology and opened a workshop adjacent to the house in 1766. It is presumed that the ...

  6. Seth Thomas Clock Company - Wikipedia

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    The Seth Thomas Clock Company was founded by Seth Thomas in Plymouth Hollow, Connecticut, and began producing clocks in 1813. [1] It was incorporated as the "Seth Thomas Clock Company" in 1853. [ citation needed ] Plymouth Hollow, a part of the town of Plymouth, was incorporated in 1875 as the town of Thomaston , named for Seth Thomas.

  7. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    The next 3 decades saw the development of quartz clocks as precision time standards in laboratory settings; the bulky delicate counting electronics, built with vacuum tubes, limited their use elsewhere. In 1932 a quartz clock was able to measure tiny variations in the rotation rate of the Earth over periods as short as a few weeks. [39]

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