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Zimingzhong Clockwork Treasures Exhibition

Alastair — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 16:04:53 +0000

A new exhibition featuring 23 exotic clockwork treasures beloved by Chinese emperors, and loaned from The Palace Museum in Beijing, opened this week at the Science Museum in London. The magnificent 18th century automata, called Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍: meaning ‘self-sounding bells’ or ‘bells that ring themselves’, combine timekeeping, music, and movement in a display of amazing […]

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Clock Museum in Saint-Nicolas d’Aliermont, Normandy

Alastair — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 07:52:48 +0000

The clock museum, or ‘Musée de l’Horlogerie’, in Saint-Nicolas-d’Aliermont presents a really interesting social and industrial account of the rise and partial decline of a town focused on a single technology. Back in the 1950/60s, Saint-Nicolas-d’Aliermont was renowned in France as a centre of light engineering, particularly clocks. Practically everyone in France woke up to […]

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The World’s Oldest Working Clock

Alastair — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:47:58 +0000

This clock in Salisbury Cathedral is thought to be the world’s oldest… that is still working! Once again it was the Dutch who were working at the cutting edge of technology (remember, their engineers were all over the UK at the start of the middle ages building canals, locks and drainage systems) when Bishop Ralph […]

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