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A jacquemart (sometimes jaquemart and also called a quarter-jack) is an automaton, an animated, mechanised figure of a person, usually made from wood or metal, which strikes the hours on a bell with a hammer. Jacquemarts are usually part of clocks or clocktowers, and are often near or at the top of the construction. The figurine is also known ...
The Kremlin Clock on the Moscow Kremlin rings in 2012.. The most basic sort of striking clock simply sounds a bell once every hour; this is called a passing strike clock. . Passing strike was simple to implement mechanically; all that must be done is to attach a cam to a shaft that rotates once per hour; the cam raises and then lets a hammer fall that strikes t
18 July 1955: The rope operating the striking hammer broke, silencing the clock from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. [52] New Year's Eve 1962: The clock slowed due to heavy snow and ice on the hands, causing the pendulum to detach from the clockwork, as it is designed to do in such circumstances, to avoid serious damage elsewhere in the mechanism ...
The Westminster Quarters were originally written in 1793 for a new clock in Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge. There is some doubt over exactly who composed it: Joseph Jowett , Regius Professor of Civil Law , was given the job, but he was probably assisted by either John Randall (1715–1799), who was the Professor of Music ...
A 1909 ad for the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company. The Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, also known as the Belknap Hardware Company or simply Belknap Hardware, was at one time a leading American manufacturer of hardware goods and a major wholesale competitor of retail sales companies Sears, Roebuck, and Company and Montgomery Ward.
Abinger Hammer was a focus for forges Abinger Hammer clock. The river Tillingbourne was enchannelled in the 16th century, creating a hammer pond, provided water power for Abinger Hammer Mill which worked Sussex-sourced iron. [1] The pond has since been adapted for the cultivation of watercress. [2] [3]
The hammer itself is a metal piece that forcefully rotates about a pivot point. [2] The term tumbler can refer to a part of the hammer or a part mechanically attached to the pivot-point of the hammer, depending on the particular firearm under discussion (see half-cock). According to one source the term tumbler is synonymous with hammer. [3] [4]
A cartoon character producing an object from nowhere - from "hammerspace" Hammerspace (also known as malletspace) is an imaginary extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area in fiction, which is used to explain how characters from animation, comics, and video games can produce objects out of thin air.