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Nov 21, 2015, 01:49 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
Posts: 3,592
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Originally Posted by rcat
Little Didgee. I was once at a town in Germany (Rudesheim?) that is famous for mechanical toys. I was mesmerized by a tiny windup humming bird. WHile no clock, I'm sure you would have appreciated it.
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I've never seen a windup humming bird. It sounds similar to a windup singing bird cage that has a bird who moves and sings.
The movements inside mechanical toys and music boxes are very similar to striking and chiming trains in clocks.
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Originally Posted by eskielover
After my dad got out of the army after WW11 he really couldn't figure out what to do with his life. My mothers grandfather did watch repair & my dad decided to learn that. It didn't earn enough to support a family so he had to get a real job & make watch repair his hobby. He would spend hours in the garage at his watch repair bench. The horse was too small to have it in the house. He had his little heater next to the bench during the colder winter days in so. Ca.
One of the most fascinating clocks I ever was was when I was wandering around Rome Italy. I walked into this courtyard of at least a 3 story complex attached to some ruins & there stood this huge water clock. The running water made the clock run & keep perfect time.....very interesting
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Here in Canada a lot of WWII veterans were taught how to repair watches after the war.
I watched a documentary about Roman and Greek water clocks last year that was really interesting. Apparently they had a problem with people talking too long in court. To address this speakers were timed by using a clepsydra, a small earthenware vessel with a hole on the side near the bottom. It was filled with water and once it emptied time was up.
Europe does have some really nice turret clocks.
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