Clock

Clock

Any instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.

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carriage clock

Chronometry; Clock

Small portable clock, usually has a brass case with glass sides and a decorative handle on top.

carillon

Chronometry; Clock

A set of bells, musically tuned and hung in a tower, played by a pin barrel or by hand. The carillon is occasionally associated with domestic clocks, and in both types two hammers are sometimes ...

A type of late 18th and early 19th-century traveling clock, predecessor of the true pendule de voyage, also sometimes called a foncine or lantern clock. These rectangular brass clocks, surmounted by ...

carborundum wheels

Chronometry; Clock

An abrasive disc or wheel of artificial stone mounted on a machine spindle and rotated at speed for grinding. Carborundum wheels are obtainable in many diameters, widths, spindle sizes, shapes and ...

capstan lathe

Chronometry; Clock

A type of lathe fitted with accessories set up for rapid production of identical parts. The distinguishing feature is the self-indexing capstan or tool head which holds several previously positioned ...

candle clock

Chronometry; Clock

Tradition has it that King Alfred utilized the idea of marking a candle in divisions, each of which would take approximately one hour to burn. This is really not a clock but simply an interval timer, ...