Clocks are ancient devices because people have always needed to keep track of time. Around the world, sundials, water timers, candle clocks and hourglasses were the earliest timekeepers. However, once ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Eli Terry began to mass-produce his ...

A Pillar and Scroll clock is easy to identify. It fits on a shelf, mantel or table. The clock is named for the small pillars on the front corners of the clock and the scroll design at the top. The ...

A pillar and scroll clock is easy to identify. It fits on a shelf, mantel or table. The clock is named for the small pillars on the front corners of the clock and the scroll design at the top. The ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From its invention in the fifteenth ...

Time tells a story inside Robert Desrochers’ Lititz workshop. Hours and minutes strike, musical notes chime, gears shift, and heavy pendulums swing back and forth amid a sea of grandfather clocks, ...

DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: Please find photo enclosed of a clock that belonged to my grandmother. It is ceramic and it is marked "Ansonia Clock Co. New York" and it has an "A" inside a square inside a ...

Retrograde clocks are unique, in that they eschew the normal fully-circular movement for the hands. Instead, the hands merely sweep out a segment of a circular arc, before jumping back to their start ...

TO THEIR OWN HISTORY AS THE SEA OF CLOCKS COLLECTED HERE AT DELANEY. ANTIQUE CLOCKS IN WEST TOWNSEND STARTED IN ENGLAND. MY FATHER WAS TEACHING ON AN AIR FORCE BASE AND MY MOM WAS WITH THE RED CROSS.