Sam Forstmann is an old man who thinks he will die if his grandfather clock stops ticking.
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A 14 foot high longcase clock made by him between 1743 and 1747, for which he charged £105 can be seen in the Marble Hall of Powderham Castle.
The first boat powered by a petrol engine was tested on the Neckar river by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1886, when they tested their new "longcase clock" engine.