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A steam clock is a clock which is fully or partially powered by a steam engine. Only a few functioning steam clocks exist, most designed and built by Canadian horologist Raymond Saunders for display in urban public spaces. Steam clocks built by Saunders are located in Otaru, Japan; Indianapolis, United States; and the Canadian cities of ...
Raymond Saunders (Feb. 7, 1940 to Nov. 23, 2024) was a Canadian clockmaker who has designed and built more than 150 customized clocks that mainly serve as tourist-attracting public artworks. In 1977 he was commissioned to build a steam clock for the Gastown district of Vancouver , Canada. [ 1 ]
The Indiana Steam Clock is a steam clock installed outside the Indiana State Museum, in Indianapolis, Indiana. [1] [2] Description.
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The Vietnamese Wikipedia (Vietnamese: Wikipedia tiếng Việt) is the Vietnamese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, publicly editable, online encyclopedia supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Like the rest of Wikipedia, its content is created and accessed using the MediaWiki wiki software.
Central Vietnam (Vietnamese: Trung Bộ or miền Trung), also known as Middle Vietnam or The Middle, formerly known as Trung Việt by the State of Vietnam, Trung Phần by the Republic of Vietnam, [1] Trung Kỳ or Annam under French colonial rule, is one of the three geographical regions within Vietnam. The name Trung Bộ was used by the ...
Derung people, also known as Trung people, an ethnic minority in Viet Nam; Derung language, also known as the Trung language, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by Derung people; Trưng Sisters (fl. 12–43), Vietnamese sisters who rebelled against the Eastern Han dynasty; T'rưng, a bamboo xylophone used by the Jarai people and Bahnar people in ...
A man playing the đàn tranh beside the singer. The đàn tranh (Vietnamese: [ɗâːn ʈajŋ̟], 彈 箏) or đàn thập lục [1] is a plucked zither of Vietnam, based on the Chinese guzheng, from which are also derived the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Mongolian yatga, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen.