A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum...

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...

(1635–87) wrote to his wife describing Knibb's advice on choosing a case for a longcase clock: I went to the famous Pendulum maker Knibb, and have agreed for one...

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...

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...

Dictionary says the song was the origin of the term "grandfather clock" for a longcase clock. In 1905, the earliest known recording of this song was performed...

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Mason was known for constructing longcase clocks with eight-day movements, with two keyholes on either side of the...

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 popularized the anchor in his invention of the longcase or grandfather clock around 1680. Clement's invention was a substantial...

from that hung by Potter in 1906 and covers the walls and ceiling. The longcase clock dated ca. 1785, the Chippendale-style chairs, the Georgian-style...

occasionally become lost or obscured from his clocks. Simon Willard built longcase clocks which were quite sumptuous, being adorned with many fine details...

King Charles III (then Prince of Wales). Tubular bells are also used in longcase clocks, particularly because they produce a louder sound than gongs and...

of hide-and-seek 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...

watches. The style of his early longcase clocks owes much to Thomas Tompion, and the delicate functionality of his early longcase wheelwork echoes Tompion's...

powered by very heavy weights and springs, like a more powerful version of a longcase clock. They could also be hydraulically powered, with a turbine or waterwheel...

Market Place in central Wigan, John and his family would craft intricate longcase clocks for use in the home and large turret clocks for public spaces. In...

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...

Gustavian Mora clocks are a type of longcase clock which were made in, and derived their name from, the town of Mora in Dalarna province, Sweden. Production...

singer-songwriter Winona Oak grew up. Gustavian Mora clock are a type of longcase clock which were made in the town of Mora. Production began in the late...

1588 by Francis Nowe. One of the largest is James Markwick the younger's longcase clock of 1725, nearly 3 metres in height and japanned. Other clockmakers...

presenting the Museum with his own historic collection, which included 42 longcase clocks, 24 other clocks and 13 watches. In 1967 the Museum published a...

Ridgeway Clocks is a division of Howard Miller Company, and is a producer of longcase clocks, mantle clocks, and wall clocks. The company's facilities are located...

(1740–75). A number of longcase clocks made by the two men still exist. William Harrison was a later Quaker clockmaker at Charlbury. A longcase clock that he made...

lacquer-decorated cases. He returned to walnut for his late longcase clocks. Most of Gretton’s longcase movements had countwheel-striking control, although some...

Doctor and Adric depart in his TARDIS. Later, Tremas discovers an alien longcase clock, and is transfixed to it when the Master emerges from it and merges...

from 1965 to 1969. All 85 clocks in the White House (including the 12 longcase clocks), were maintained and wound by John Muffler, the White House's chief...

Tompion's innovations was to create a numbering system for his spring and longcase clocks, which is thought to be the first time that a serial numbering system...

slower than the 0.994 m (39.1 in) seconds pendulum typically found in a longcase clock, where each swing (or half-period) takes one second. The first clock...

lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day, he decides that he would start a...

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clockmaker, in Ipswich. He set up business in Woodbridge in Suffolk making longcase and lantern clocks, and is regarded as one of the best makers in Suffolk...

1657 in the Hague, but it was in England that the idea was taken up. The longcase clock (also known as the grandfather clock) was created to house the pendulum...

office equipment manufacturer Howard Miller a Zeeland manufacturer of longcase clocks Kellogg's, a Battle Creek breakfast cereal producer Meijer, a Walker...

the hour and the latter the minute. Grandfather clocks (also known as Longcase clocks) typically use Roman numerals for the hours. Clocks using only Arabic...

18th-century fireplace. Contents of the room include a 14 feet (4.3 m) high longcase clock made about 1745 by William Stumbels of Totnes; a large 17th-century...

repetition. Joseph Norris (1650–after 1700), English clockmaker, London, longcase clock, table clocks. Johann Willebrand (1658–1726), German clockmaker,...

guild's third alderman in 1758–60. He specialized in tower clocks and longcase clocks. Buildings with Peter Mathiesen tower clocks include the Church...

Rønne and produces electricity and heat. Rønne also became famous for its longcase clocks or Bornholmerure which were manufactured from the middle of the...

people Howard "Buzz" Miller, President Jim O'Keefe Vice President Products Longcase clocks Curio Cabinets, Wall Clocks Mantle Clocks Wine and Spirits Furnishings...

glass and intricately made silver from Edinburgh and Canongate, costume, longcase clocks, along with Scottish pottery and Scottish porcelain dating from...

seventeenth-century London, producing a large number of lantern clocks, bracket clocks, longcase clocks and pocket watches. His earliest watch, displayed in the British...

Book of Gramarye is protected by an enchanted device of a pendulum in a longcase clock, that if touched, will detonate and destroy any human that attempts...

Longcase clock (Grandfather clock) pendulum...

most important early clock and watchmakers who was best known for his longcase clocks as well as for the building the turret clock at Sydney's Hyde Park...

planetary models with a discussion of his E.T. graph Equation of Time Longcase Clock by John Topping C.1720 The equation of time correction-table A page...

presidency in 2025 and replaced with a collection of gold objects. A Federal longcase clock, made in Boston by John and Thomas Seymour c. 1795–1805 – commonly...

unconscious after a large longcase clock in a hallway toppled over, striking him on the head, and knocking him down. The longcase clock inflicted a severe...

Michael Aspel & Richard Price Hilary Kay – a bronze by Auguste Rodin – a Longcase clock – a sketch by Piet Mondrian valued between £50–70,000. 27/8 24/10/2004...

André-Charles Boulle - Longcase Regulator, Indianapolis Museum of Art...

held in museum and private collections. Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Longcase Clock | Etherington, George | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and...

still officially bankrupt, he had been keeping a collection of antique longcase clocks and Chinese pottery with a total value of S$400,000 in their Peck...

century, and is said to be the most faithful to the destroyed original. A longcase clock, with an almost completely wooden internal mechanism, made by John...

music sales. It also coined the phrase grandfather clock to describe a longcase clock. After Work sold the copyright to "Grandfather's Clock", Cady paid...

1769. Two of his clocks can be found in Totnes Museum. A 14-foot high longcase clock made by him between 1743 and 1747, for which he charged £105, can...

being much older. The chimes are found in many early English bracket and longcase clocks. The melody was not given the name "Whittington Chimes" on domestic...

and April learn more of Mudsy's past where he and Boo hid inside the longcase "grandfather" clock inside which both were eventually trapped and died...

(1762–1835) lived in Adderbury East and traded from 1788. Williams made longcase clocks and succeeded Richard Gilkes in the maintenance of the parish church...

NASCAR events since September 1964, when H. Clay Earles began awarding longcase clocks to feature division (Cup Series and the Late Model and Modified...

South Korea, a railway station Mora clock, a type of 19th-century Swedish longcase clock Mora knife, a type of knife made by various makers in Mora, Sweden...

items that have been handed in include a wedding dress, ashes in an urn, a longcase clock, a kitchen sink, and several wheelchairs. In Japan, a combination...

International Publications. ISBN 0-8478-0261-2. Victoria and Albert Museum, Longcase Clock | Weeks, Thomas | Cox, James William Nicholson, "Concerning those...

in return he was made an honorary burgess of Nottingham. He also made longcase clocks known to be signed "J Woolley", brass and silvered face with moon...

was that clockmakers started to develop other types of domestic clocks. Longcase clocks with 8-day movements made lantern clocks obsolete, and gradually...

Dutch Golden Age, which has remained popular at various times since then. Longcase and table clocks Dutch wall clock of 1685 Late mediæval turret clock with...

greatest single improvement ever applied to pocket watches – Thomas Mudge Longcase clock or grandfather clock – William Clement Marine chronometer – John...

Changed the World, Fromanteel's patent "ushered in the age of English longcase clocks, which dominated horology for a century". Fromanteel relocated back...

student he bought his first Comtoise clock, a typical French grandfather or longcase clock. In later years, during frequent visits to the Haut-Jura, the birthplace...

produced various clocks and watches including bracket clocks, lantern clocks, longcase clocks, and some wall-clocks, as well as building and maintaining several...

Longcase equation regulator by Ferdinand Berthoud, c. 1752...

that protected the dials of late 17th- and early 18th-century bracket and longcase clocks. English collectors and dealers sometimes call these twist-turned...

could buy in London at the time" Craig Barefoot Clocks "238 James Ivory Longcase Clock". Retrieved 23 May 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival...

with basic kitchen utensils such as a kettle and cutlery. A traditional longcase clock is also located at the centre of the room, although now out of use...

the last Spanish governor of the island, Ricardo De Ortega, struck a longcase clock in La Fortaleza with his sword, stopping the clock and marking the...

commonly known in the trade as 'Honest George Graham'. A 28-day duration longcase regulator with deadbeat escapement c. 1745 Moyse's Hall Museum Bury St...

(introduction), "A Collector's Dream: Dr William Borthwick's clocks and other instruments", ISBN 9781399958059 (UK) John Smith Pittenweem Longcase Clock C.1790...

museum shows the development of mechanical clocks. Lantern clocks and longcase clocks are exhibited in the Beeson Room, named after the antiquarian horologist...

London. 18 February 2026. Retrieved 1 April 2026. "Johann Klein. Fine Longcase Clocks". Country Life. England. 6 September 1973. Retrieved 4 October 2025...

crucibles reused. The first object to contain Crucible Cast Steel, was a longcase clock, made by Huntsman. It is on display in the Enid Hattersley Gallery...

Longcase clock with a cone pendulum, by Joseph Kaspar Bollermann, Würzburg, 1825...

music sales. It also coined the phrase "grandfather clock" to describe a longcase clock. After Work sold the copyright to "Grandfather's Clock," Cady paid...

tea and coffee cups, along with other, eighteenth century ceramics. A longcase clock of around 1760 belonged first to William Rutson's grandfather, (also...

oyster veneered cabinets were invariably in cocus or kingwood. Contemporary longcase clock cases were similarly veneered. By around the early 1670s softer and...

January 2007. Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd. "Lot 2188: An 18th century oak longcase clock, 28cm square". Invaluable. Retrieved 1 July 2020. v t e...

(1773-1835) of Haworth and probably painted the dials on Barraclough’s longcase clocks including those with Masonic symbols. In 1825, Bradley was one of...

beacon. A reflector in the light was rotated by a system of weights from a longcase clock. A wind-powered generator powered the light for a while in the 1930s...

William Joyce began in the North Shropshire village of Cockshutt making longcase clocks. The family business was handed down from father to son and in 1790...

depicts a middle-class American household during the early 19th century. The longcase clock, the birdcage, the pictures above the fireplace, and other features...

Axbridge where he made longcase clocks. An example can be seen in the King John's Hunting Lodge Museum. Edward Bilbie made longcase clocks which were known...

Wrought by a Merlin". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 19 October 2014. "Longcase clock". Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Retrieved 12 July 2018. Ord-Hume...

clocks by George Graham Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully Longcase clock by James Harrison Longcase movements by John Harrison Watch by John Jefferys, made...

there by both Simon and Aaron. Benjamin Junior's best clocks were tall longcase clocks. Among the Willard brothers, Simon Willard was the most renowned...

Midland Railway which were used in railway offices and signal boxes, and longcase clocks and watches. It is suggested that some of his turret clock business...

time or Greenwich Mean Time was introduced as the British standard. The longcase clock in the room is still set to Nottingham time, 4 minutes and 33 seconds...

reine (Clockmaker to the Queen). Around 1785 Kinzing produced a series of longcase regulators with dials according to the plans of Benjamin Franklin, whom...

hijacking incident. While there Kanou's Papillon goes missing when the longcase clock strikes twelve and chimes twelve times. When Doyle's, the Papillon...

saving his life. One leftover mouse (the executioner) pops out of the longcase clock behind Sylvester, wielding a large wooden mallet. Seeing this, Porky...

composite of Georgian country house landscape by an English painter. £4,000 – longcase clock with automaton, by John Alker of Wigan, 1830s. Decorated with Saint...

Important objects, including chests and strongboxes, as well as armories and longcase clocks, were prioritized for beautification. The armoires were status objects...

Furniture:- £52, a pair of Chinese Chippendale mahogany chairs; £70, a longcase clock in seaweed marquetry and walnut; £50, a Regency mahogany sideboard;...

"John Jefferys, London; a watchmaker of repute, but did he actually make longcase clocks?" (PDF). Longcaseclock.co.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2016. A. W. Wolfendale...

stone church being the middle aged baptismal font and the 18th century longcase clock. The church does however have a few recent artistic embellishments...

which were owned by the Roedde family. Highlights include, the George III longcase clock manufactured in 1775, the upright Steinway piano dated 1893 and other...

by 'Whitehurst of Derby' in 1761, £3,000 – 'Mill clock' incorporating longcase clock mechanism and second dial powered by the 'Mill Wheel'. Used as a...

2026. "a mahogany longcase clock". Christie's. 26 February 1998. Retrieved 1 April 2026. "A Gabriel Holland George III Oak Longcase Clock, 18th century...

leatherwork (1923) Applied Design in the Precious Metals (1929) Swallows Longcase clock circa 1902. Purchased for £18,750 by Glasgow Museums in 2011. Swallows...

concludes that John was trained to kill when he hears nine chimes from a Longcase clock and Masayoshi's voice. Masayoshi confesses that he had forgiven Takashi...

highly accurate pendulum clock as a master clock. This clock resembled a longcase clock, but had a very robust mechanism and a less ornate case. Electrical...

proposal. Zeke and Luther decide to complete and varnish Carl's wooden longcase clock, which he planned to give to Nana upon its completion. The boys only...

longcase clocks. He too is buried at Adderbury West. Thomas Fardon (1787–1838) made various timepieces including an Act of Parliament clock, longcase...

clock by the English royal clockmaker, Edward East (1602–1696); 1700, longcase, grandfather, month clock by Thomas Tompion (1639-1713); A curious c.1720-1730...

demonstrate later decorative techniques, including an eighteenth-century longcase clock decorated with delicate inlay of flowers, foliage and birds, and...

earliest Bilbie clocks date from 1724 and are highly prized. They are mostly longcase clocks, the cheapest with 30-hour movements in modest oak cases, but some...

Miller collection to the V&A." On her death in 1956, she left the V&A a longcase clock which Miller had left her. "Miller, William Edwards, 1851–1940"....

Bornholm, an asteroid Bornholm disease, a viral disease Bornholm, a type of longcase clock All pages with titles containing Bornholm This disambiguation page...

brothers strove to compact the traditional 18th century British type of longcase clock. They simplified its action-mechanism and, for casing, they used...

sculptures of underwater life at the base. Opposite stands an Amsterdam longcase clock from 1750 by Jan Henkels, featuring Atlas with a celestial globe...

independent centre seconds stopwatch. Delander also built many mantel clocks and longcase clocks. His son Nathaniel Delander II continued the family tradition. There...

the traditional Parisian firm E. Granger. There is also an assemblage of longcase clocks of Austrian and French origin, including a Planchon clock with porcelain...

horological exhibition also included other kind of timepieces such as longcase, wall and bracket clocks, but later on it focused on cuckoo clocks. The...

dated c 1735-40 by Henry Hawley; the Cleveland Museum of Art also has a longcase clock (acc. no. 49.200) veneered with tortoiseshell and brass marquetry...

(created by Axel Axelrad; voiced by Colin McEwan). Cassius inhabited a longcase cuckoo clock next to Mother Hubbard's cupboard in The Magic Cottage, and...

later life Aldworth retired to Childrey, where he continued his work. One longcase clock dated 1725 is signed Sam Aldworth at Childrey From London. Aldworth...

middle of the hallway is a Victorian burr walnut centre table, c. 1860. The longcase mahogany-veneered oak clock, c. 1780, is a family heirloom. At the end...

"Bonhams : A late 18th Century oak and mahogany-cased 30-hour brass dial longcase clock (Samuel) Lomas, Poolton (Poulton, Lancashire), circa 1775 sold with...

19th c. Tiffany Longcase Clock photo donated by the Met 192934...

Sense") in Naples, arguing for an organic origin for fossils. The first longcase clock is built in England by William Clement. February 25 – Maria Margarethe...

Forest, and the Voyce collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century longcase clocks. The Dean Heritage Museum Trust is a registered charity formed in...

History and Antiques website, An extensive Castleford pottery collection, Longcase clocks, furniture and Objet D'art within the Pontefract Castle's Guardhouse...