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clockmaker — clockmaking, n. /klok may keuhr/, n. a person who makes or repairs clocks. [1400 50; late ME. See CLOCK1, MAKER] * * * … Universalium
Cuckoo clock — Cuckoo clock, a so called Jagdstück (Hunt piece), Black Forest, ca. 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2006 013 A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum regulated, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo s call and typically… … Wikipedia
Clockmaker — Woodcut of medieval clockmakers, 1568 … Wikipedia
History of timekeeping devices — For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC, in Sumer. The Ancient Egyptians divided the day into two 12 hour periods, and… … Wikipedia
Cluses — Cluses … Wikipedia
Eli Terry — Infobox Scientist name =Eli Terry senior box width = image width =150px caption =Eli Terry senior birth date = April 13, 1772 birth place = death date = February 24, 1852 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = ethnicity = field =… … Wikipedia
Franz Ketterer — Franz Anton Ketterer (1676 1749) was a German clockmaker.Ketterer, one of the founding fathers of the Black Forest clockmaking industry in Germany, was born in the village of Schönwald im Schwarzwald. He is chiefly remembered as one of the… … Wikipedia
Art fabrication — is a process or service relating to the production of large or technically difficult artworks.When a lone artist or designer is incapable or chooses not to realize the creation of his or her own design or conception, he or she may enlist the… … Wikipedia
Isaac Brokaw — (March 9, 1746 ndash; September 16, 1826) was a clockmaker from New Jersey. Brokaw was born in Raritan in Somerset County, but would leave for Elizabethtown where he would work as an apprentice under Aaron Miller, a renowned clock maker. He would … Wikipedia
Benjamin Willard — Benjamin Willard, Jr. (1743 ndash; 1803) was a U.S. clockmaker.The Willard FamilyBenjamin Willard, Jr. was the eldest of four brothers who were notable clockmakers in central Massachusetts during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.The other… … Wikipedia
