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Astounding Timepieces
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999
The Viennese Clock Museum is housed in the Harfenhaus (Harpist's House), one of the oldest homes in Vienna. With around 1,000 clocks in all, there is much to see, from ornate pocket watches, to a... »
Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Long Now Locations | Edited by Dylan
A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon
The celebrated Queens College Moon Dial, often erroneously attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, was painted on an exterior wall at Cambridge University in 1733. In addition to the traditional solar... »
Astounding Timepieces, Instruments of Science | Edited by Dylan and Josh
A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London
Conceived by Jem Finer of London / Irish punk band The Pogues, Longplayer is a musical composition 1,000 years in length. Its first performance began at midnight on December 31, 01999 and will... »
Astounding Timepieces, Musical Wonders, Long Now Locations | Edited by LongNow
A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock
Built over five months to exacting diagrams in an original 13th century manuscript, the elaborate elephant-shaped water clock at the Ibn Battuta mall in Dubai is a tribute to 800 year old... »
Astounding Timepieces, Amazing Automata | Edited by Annetta
Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, possibly the longest running science experiment known
Despite many attempts, and many claims, of having built a perpetual motion machine, (see Steorn's recent Orbo device) no one has, for one very simple reason. They are impossible.
Not... »
Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Instruments of Science, Retro-Tech | Edited by
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's victorian Gastown
Underneath Vancouver, Canada there runs a series of steam tunnels, with some of the tunnels apparently large enough to walk in. Running under major streets (Cordova, Water, Cambie and maybe... »
Astounding Timepieces, Retro-Tech, Amazing Automata | Edited by canuck
"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach
Passing along Route 9 through the Japanese beach town Nima, six large glass and steel pyramids rise out of the hillside, beautifully reflecting the sky in every panel.
These glass pyramids are... »
Astounding Timepieces | Edited by re_nakaba
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock
The wedding of the 16th century duke most famous for building the first brewery in Munich is celebrated every day in the huge mechanical clock on Marienplatz. 43 bells and 32 life-sized figures... »
Astounding Timepieces, Musical Wonders | Edited by Annetta
