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Alcubierre drive

For example, if one wanted to travel to Deneb 2,600 light years away and arrive less than 2,600 years in the future according to external clocks, it would be required that someone had already begun work on warping the space from Earth to Deneb at least 2,600 years ago, in which case "A spaceship appropriately located with respect to the bubble trajectory could then choose to enter the bubble, rather like a passenger catching a passing trolley car, and thus make the superluminal journey."

Ansonia Clock Company

In 1844, metal dealer Anson Greene Phelps formed the Ansonia Brass company in Connecticut, to supply the expanding clock business - nine companies were producing clocks in Connecticut.

Automaton clock

Notable examples of such clocks include the Nittele Ōdokei, designed by Hayao Miyazaki to be affixed on the Nippon Television headquarters in Tokyo, touted to be the largest animated clock in the world.

The first known mention is of those created by the Roman engineer Vitruvius, describing early alarm clocks working with gongs or trumpets.

Belle Kogan

Her early experimentation included celluloid toilet sets and clocks, a chrome-plated toaster with a plastic base, and Bakelite jewelry.

Bellmaking

Bellfounding, the casting bells in a foundry for use in churches, clocks, and public buildings

Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic

A very simple protocol — the Wide Mouth Frog protocol — allows two agents, A and B, to establish secure communications, using a trusted authentication server, S, and synchronized clocks all around.

Carriage clock

The factory of Armand Couaillet, in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont (France) made thousand of carriage clocks between 1880 and 1920.

Chelsea Clock Company

In 2005, after leading Chelsea Clock for more than 25 years, Leavitt, sold the company to JK Nicholas, an investor in Boston Scientific a business consultant, entrepreneur, and longtime collector of Chelsea clocks.

In postwar 1946, the United States Air Force created its Strategic Air Command (SAC) and equipped each if its bombers and nuclear missile silos with Chelsea clocks.

Clock synchronization

Lamport timestamps and Vector clocks are concepts of the logical clocks in distributed systems.

Clocks Are Like People

Clocks Are Like People is the second full-length album by psychedelic folk band Circulus.

Concord Museum

Other museum collections include Native American stone tools, Puritan household goods, lyceum and cattle show posters, clocks and other machinery manufactured in Concord, and works by sculptor Daniel Chester French.

Dueber-Hampden Watch Company

As the Nazi army closed in on Moscow, during  Autumn of 1941, the factory was hurriedly evacuated to the city of Zlatoust where more than 300,000 Zlatoust Type-1 watches and clocks were made.

Elektronika 7

All the street and wall clocks were based on a kit by the "Reflector" factory in Saratov and many remain in use at administrative and industrial premises in Russia.

Eli Terry

According to Diana Muir in Reflections in Bullough's Pond, within a few years, several hundred men worked in two dozen factories in the Naugatuck Valley and Bristol produced virtually identical Terry-style thirty-hour wooden clocks.

According to historian Diana Muir writing in Reflections in Bullough's Pond, at that time a skilled craftsman could produce six to ten clocks per year.

Ezra S. Carr

One exhibitor was a young man named John Muir who in his spare time on the family farm in Marquette County whittled a series of very clever clocks and similar devices.

Fairfax House

On the death in 1980 of Noel Terry (of the Terry's chocolate factory), his collection of Georgian furniture and clocks was donated to Fairfax House.

Fawcett and Ashworth

Flinders Street Station became an icon for Melbourne and its famous clocks a meeting point for generations of Melbournians.

Françoise Blanchard

Françoise worked again with Rollin in Les Trottoirs De Bangkok (The Sidewalks Of Bangkok), a film which she had a lot of fun making, and she appeared in his newest film production La Nuit Des Horloges (The Night of Clocks) opposite Ovidie.

Frank Hope-Jones

The Synchronome company manufactured electrically operated master clocks, patented in 1907, such as the Shortt-Synchronome clock.

Game clock

The first time that game clocks were used in a chess tournament was in the London 1883 tournament.

Grozny-City Towers Facade Clocks

The Grozny-City Clocks are located at the Northwest and Southeast side of the Grozny-City Towers and built in September 2011 and opened on 5 October 2011 on the birthday celebration of Chechnya President Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov in Grozny, Chechnya.

Jentique

Jenkins lost his business to partner Bernard Smart (better known as the maker of Metamec clocks) in 1936.

Kit Williams

Other clocks designed by Williams can be found in Telford Shopping Centre and in the Midsummer Place section of Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.

Landesmuseum Württemberg

history of art and cultural history: modern era glass, Württemberg crown jewels, medieval art, art chamber of the Württemberg rulers, modern glass painting, musical instruments (located in the granary), clocks and scientific instruments

Lawrence Holme Twentyman

During this period he also made clocks, of which there is a beautiful example in 'Groote Schuur', the official residence of the Prime Minister at Rondebosch.

Louis Moinet

Moinet's clocks are considered works of art as well as fine timepieces and are currently on display in such important Museums as the Louvre in Paris, the Château de Versailles, and the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.

Louis-Simon Boizot

and assembled as mantel clocks retailed by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre.

Munich Residenz

In addition to the rich accumulation of furniture, paintings and sculptures, today the museum contains bronze work, clocks, tapestries, porcelain and several special collections such as masterpieces of bronze art, European miniatures and liturgical vestments.

Peter Stretch

While conducting a study of early clockmakers in Philadelphia, Carolyn Wood Stretch located in the Philadelphia area twenty clocks by Peter Stretch (1670-1746), seven by his son Thomas Stretch (1695-1765), and two by Thomas' brother William Stretch (1701-1748).

Ponte Minich

To have the bridge named for him, the surgeon Angelo Minich (1817–1893) bequeathed the city of Venice thirty thousand lire in his will of 25 September 1893, for the comfort and education of the city and for on-time departure performance of the Venezianer electrical clocks.

Should I Go

"Should I Go" is built on percussive beats, syncopated handclaps and a piano riff that samples British alternative rock band Coldplay's song "Clocks", written by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, and Chris Martin for their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002).

Snowshill

The manor house contains an unusual collection of furniture, musical instruments, craft tools, toys, clocks, bicycles and armour, all collected by architect and craftsman Charles Paget Wade between 1900 and 1951.

St Columb Minor Church

The appearance of the clock is described as being in accordance with the oldest known examples of such clocks, as seen at Hoxham Castle, and Kirk Bampton and Castle Rushen in the Isle of Man.

Striking clock

Some rare clocks use a form of striking known as "Roman Striking" invented by Joseph Knibb, in which a large bell or lower tone is sounded to represent "five", and a small bell or high tone is sounded to represent "one".

The 4th Dimension

However, co-directors Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni are just as concerned with establishing Jack's reality in the present (in a bric-a-brac stuffed antique shop where he fixes clocks and other contraptions) and the past (where a dazzling single-shot scene dramatizes in capsule form the boy's sad life with his ill mom).

Thirteenth stroke of the clock

The most famous is the first line in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four when it starts with, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.".

Thomas Tompion

Certainly from around 1711 it was George Graham who was in partnership with Tompion, some of his later productions are jointly signed, and mysteriously some clocks have this signature on a separate plate which overlays that of Tompion and Banger engraved on the dial plate proper.

George Graham, went on to further develop the designs of both scientific instruments as well as clocks and watches after Tompion's death, and he also continued Tompion's numbering system for his clocks and watches.

Three Cuckoo Clocks

Three Cuckoo Clocks (German:Die drei Kuckucksuhren) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Nina Vanna and Nils Asther.

Time in Thailand

Thailand declared that people would move their clocks ahead by 17-minutes 56-seconds to match the time in use in Southeast Asia (UTC+06:42:04 hrs and UTC+07:00:00 ahead of Greenwich Mean Time) on 31 March 1920.

The Thai Standard Time is derived from 5-atomic clocks maintained by Royal Thai Navy.

Timekeeping on Mars

In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, clocks retain Earth-standard seconds, minutes, and hours, but freeze at midnight for 39.5 minutes.

Tooting Bec tube station

On the platforms the station has two examples of clocks from the Self Winding Clock Company of New York.

Trent Tucker Rule

NBA Commissioner David Stern made it a requirement that all NBA arenas have their official game clocks properly calibrated in the wake of the incident, resulting in scoreboard overhaul.

Württemberg

Particular importance attached to iron and steel goods, locomotives (for which Esslingen enjoyed a good reputation), machinery, cars, bicycles, small arms (in the Mauser factory at Oberndorf), all kinds of scientific and artistic appliances, pianos (at Stuttgart), organs and other musical instruments, photographic apparatus, clocks (in the Black Forest), electrical apparatus, and gold- and silver-goods.


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