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	The word 'clock' comes from the French word "cloche" meaning bell. The Latin for bell is "glocio", the Saxon is "clugga" and the German is "glocke."
	The first mechanical wind-up alarm clock that could be set for any time was patented by Seth E Thomas on October 24, 1876. An alarm clock had been invented almost 100 years earlier by Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, but his alarm clock would only ring at 4:00 AM!
It would take you more than 21 hours to view all 15,000+ images of antique clocks shown on our Antique Clocks Identification and Price Guide website, if you allowed just five seconds to view each one!
	Clocks run more slowly in a strong gravitational field than they do in a weak gravitational field. Since (most of the time) your feet are closer to the center of mass of the Earth than your head is, it is actually a subtly different time in your shoes than it is in your hat. And when you die, your head will be "older" than your feet

Clocks play a prominent role in Golden Braid, a 1991 movie based the French 19th century master of the short story, Guy de Maupassant. The main character specializes in repairing antique clocks. He is obsessed by both clocks and death, keeping a household full of clocks. Bernard likes the ones that are not battery operated because they tick, giving off vital life signs. The protagonist's obsessions are so extreme, that he's seeing a psychiatrist to get help in dealing with reality. (complete movie review at Dennis Schwartz's Movie Reviews) According to one critic, Australian critic Debra Wirth, "The only irritation of the film is the use of close-ups of the internal workings of timepieces. A swinging pendulum appears behind the credits at the beginning of the film, threatening the viewer with motion sickness. Later scenes are interspersed with close-ups of cogs and other ticking and chiming mechanisms, which ends up being quite annoying. Aside from that, if you feel like a departure from glossy mainstream cinema, The Golden Braid is worth a look."
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	Second: The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom. The definition was added to the International System (SI) of units in 1967. A Millisecond = One thousandth of a second (10-3 s). A Microsecond = One millionth of a second (10-6 s). A Nanosecond = One billionth of a second (10-9 s). A Picosecond = One trillionth of a second (10-12 s). A Femtosecond = One quadrillionth of a second (10-15 s).
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The authoritative antique clocks price report. For dealers, collectors and appraisers of antique American, English and European clocks of all types. Find values for your grandfather clock, mantel or wall clock. As of July 4, 2008 we have 17,966 antique clock prices and descriptions.

The authoritative antique clocks price report. For dealers, collectors and appraisers of antique American, English and European clocks of all types. Find values for your grandfather clock, mantel or wall clock.
As of July 4, 2008 we have 17,966 antique clock prices and descriptions.