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A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism called a torsion pendulum. This is a weighted disk or wheel, often a decorative wheel with three or four chrome balls on ornate spokes, suspended by a thin wire or ribbon called a torsion spring (also ...
Hermle Clocks (1922–present) Junghans, Schramberg (1861–present) Kieninger Clock Company, initially in Mönchweiler, 1921 new factory in Aldingen (1912–present) Kieninger & Obergfell Uhrenfabrik (KUNDO trademark), Sankt Georgen (1918 - recent) Kienzle Uhren, Schwenningen - Schlenker and Keinzle until c1897 (1883-1996) Franz Ketterer
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A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is an approximate harmonic oscillator : It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates.
Kundo may refer to: A German manufacturer of torsion pendulum clocks in the early 20th century; Kundo: Age of the Rampant, a 2014 South Korean film; Kundō Koyama, a Japanese writer; Kundo, a deity in the fictional World of Greyhawk
Kundo: Age of the Rampant drew 551,848 viewers on its first day in theaters on July 23, 2014, grossing ₩4.08 billion (or US$3.997 million).This was the all-time highest opening day box office in South Korea, for both a foreign and domestic film, breaking previous records set by Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Secretly, Greatly (2013) (Kundo's record would shortly be broken eight ...
The most accurate pendulum clocks were controlled electrically. [166] The Shortt–Synchronome clock, an electrical driven pendulum clock designed in 1921, was the first clock to be a more accurate timekeeper than the Earth itself. [167] A succession of innovations and discoveries led to the invention of the modern quartz timer.
Jessop's Clock, San Diego, California, is a pendulum regulated multi-face town clock commissioned in 1905 by Joseph Jessop, a jewellery store owner in San Diego, California. The Ohio Clock is an 1815 clock in the United States Capitol; The Town Clock of Dubuque, Iowa is in a downtown clock tower, built in 1864.