- A
grandfather clock (also a
longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, or
floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven
pendulum clock...
- The
Howard Miller Company is a Zeeland, Michigan,
based manufacturer of
longcase clocks and
other home furnishings.
Howard Miller Clock Company was founded...
- clockmaker.
Examples of
these complex movements can be seen in the many
longcase clocks constructed in the 16th and 17th centuries. By the 19th century...
-
Gottlieb Daimler and
Wilhelm Maybach in 1886, when they
tested their new "
longcase clock" engine. It had been
constructed in the
former greenhouse (converted...
-
clockmaker William Clement, who po****rized the
anchor in his
invention of the
longcase or
grandfather clock around 1680. Clement's
invention was a substantial...
-
thoroughly washed pig's gut.
Animal gut was used to make the cord
lines in
longcase clocks and for
fusee movements in
bracket clocks, but may be
replaced by...
- a
skilled joiner, made at
least three precision longcase clocks,
again with the
movements and
longcase made of oak and
lignum vitae. The grid-iron pendulum...
- from 1886 thru the
early 1890s, in
addition to its
standard offering of
longcase clocks, mantel, wall, and table-top clocks. On May 7, 1926, Seth Thomas...
- of hide-and-s**** with her cat Cicerone. The game
leads them to an old
longcase clock,
which doubles as a
doorway to a
labyrinth world filled with supernatural...
- 1588 by
Francis Nowe. One of the
largest is
James Markwick the younger's
longcase clock of 1725,
nearly 3
metres in
height and ****anned.
Other clockmakers...
