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  • Thumbnail for Clockwork
    similarly, using a series of gears driven by a spring or weight. A clockwork mechanism is often powered by a clockwork motor consisting of a mainspring...
    13 KB (1,612 words) - 12:46, 6 January 2024
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    from a Parisian jeweller in 1872. The swan, which is life-sized, is a clockwork-driven device that includes a music box. The swan sits in a "stream" made...
    6 KB (709 words) - 21:54, 21 March 2024
  • resorts across Europe and in America.[citation needed] By 1870, a clockwork-driven vibrator was available for physicians.[citation needed] In 1873, the...
    9 KB (1,120 words) - 20:31, 21 May 2024
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    ancient and medieval times. In 1649, Hans Hautsch of Nuremberg built a clockwork-driven carriage. In 1672, a small-scale steam-powered vehicle was created;...
    78 KB (8,830 words) - 12:44, 30 May 2024
  • Clockwork Angels is the nineteenth and final studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on June 8, 2012, on Roadrunner Records. During the band's...
    38 KB (3,531 words) - 09:49, 1 June 2024
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    barrel organ is activated either by a person turning a crank, or by clockwork driven by weights or springs. The pieces of music are encoded onto wooden...
    11 KB (1,426 words) - 19:38, 4 March 2024
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    Toy Museum at Freinsheim in Rhineland-Palatinate. Military car, 1914 Clockwork-driven torpedo boat (top), 1910 Two 1920 Bing steamrollers and an 1885 Schönner...
    10 KB (1,089 words) - 20:57, 26 June 2023
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    steam. Steam and clockwork-driven engines are still sought by collectors. Most early models for the toy market were powered by clockwork and controlled...
    40 KB (5,172 words) - 16:24, 17 March 2024
  • manipulation was declared a "masterpiece unto itself" and another in a clockwork-driven mansion was labeled as "mind-bending". Lucas Sullivan of GamesRadar...
    98 KB (8,405 words) - 01:55, 5 April 2024
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    use of synthesizers, before returning to guitar-driven hard rock at the end of the 1980s. Clockwork Angels marked a return to progressive rock. The members...
    163 KB (16,450 words) - 15:05, 5 June 2024
  • barrel organ is activated either by a person turning a crank, or by clockwork driven by weights or springs. Usually, mechanical organs are pipe organs although...
    2 KB (286 words) - 04:02, 28 November 2021
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    the oldest known photograph of a model railroad and shows that the clockwork-driven tender engine had six wheels (0-6-0T) and pulled two three-axle flat...
    4 KB (428 words) - 11:24, 20 January 2024
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    not done the wick burned. Moderator lamps replaced the more complex clockwork-driven Carcel lamps and were widely used by the end of the 19th century, for...
    3 KB (423 words) - 00:33, 26 April 2024
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    microphone design and developed a way to interrupt his induction balance via a clockwork mechanism to produce a series of sparks. By trial and error experiments...
    26 KB (2,175 words) - 14:39, 22 May 2024
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    Human power (redirect from Clockwork Radio)
    available. These include the Gibson girl survival radio, wind-up or (clockwork) radio and pedal radio. Normal human metabolism produces heat at a basal...
    15 KB (1,779 words) - 12:34, 7 March 2024
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    전상운 全相運, who examined the device in 1962, assumed that it was the clockwork driven sphere known to have been made by Song Yiyeong 송이영 宋以穎 in 1669 for...
    5 KB (593 words) - 08:13, 29 April 2024
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    engineer Thomas Smith. It was the first Scottish lighthouse to have a clockwork-driven revolving parabolic reflector creating a sweeping beam. The reflector...
    31 KB (3,551 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2024
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    gives a general description of the clock tower itself: (Su Song's) clockwork, driven by a water-wheel, and fully enclosed within the tower, rotated an...
    38 KB (4,714 words) - 00:16, 5 June 2024
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    Douglass two-wick oil burners: six lamps and reflectors on each side of a clockwork-driven revolving triangular frame (eighteen lamps in total). The speed of...
    15 KB (1,435 words) - 01:18, 30 December 2023
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    water-powered armillary sphere and clock drive, which was the world's first clockwork escapement. Song dynasty (960–1279) horologists Zhang Sixun (fl. late...
    69 KB (8,702 words) - 20:22, 4 June 2024
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