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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 ]
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Guinness World Records: The world's largest pendulum-regulated clock is the Harmony Tower in Ganzhou, China. [6] Guinness World Records: The world's largest steam clock is on the North Quay at St Helier, Jersey. The world's largest solar-powered clock is called 'The Beacon' and is installed as a feature clock at the University of Baghdad. [7]
Indiana Steam Clock Coordinates: 39°46′09″N 86°10′10″W / 39.7692°N 86.1695°W / 39.7692; -86 The Indiana Steam Clock is a steam clock installed outside the Indiana State Museum , in Indianapolis , Indiana.
Gastown's most famous (though nowhere near oldest) landmark is the steam-powered clock on the corner of Cambie and Water Street. It was built in 1977 to cover a steam grate, part of Vancouver's distributed steam heating system, as a way to harness the steam and to prevent street people from sleeping on the spot in cold weather. [10]
(Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by Francis Chantrey) James Watt FRS FRSE (/ w ɒ t /; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) [a] was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great ...