The Clock came from the imagination of an indefatigable Yorkshireman, Mike Richardson, for whom Fes was love at first sight.
The time on the earliest clocks could be heard and not seen, indeed the word "clock" comes from the Latin clocca (bell).
The word "clock" comes from the same root as glocke, the German word for bell, since the earliest clocks were meant to be listened to, not "watched". The clocks of medieval times were probably grossly inaccurate, but that didn't really matter.
The idea for the clock came from New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, who wanted to highlight the rising national debt.
The story, which also involves an overly friendly forklift operator with an unusual hobby and a born-again Christian who carves rocks into Oregon-shaped clocks, comes from "Naked," Mr. Sedaris's 1997 collection of essays.
The earliest mention of candle clocks comes from a Chinese poem, written in 520 by You Jianfu.
Much of the understanding concerning the functioning of the circadian clock has come from extensive work done in model organisms mutant for one or several clock genes.
Actually, many of the objects in Lauder's office — cabinets, tables, lights, chairs, clock — do come from a Mitteleuropean bank dating from the early twentieth century: the Austrian Postal Savings Bank in Vienna, a landmark of early-modern architecture that was designed by Otto Wagner in 1906, and whose contents Lauder acquired from a dealer some years ago.
Major contributions toward elucidating clock mechanisms have come from studies on circadian rhythms in the filamentous ascomycete N. crassa (Dunlap 2006; Heintzen and Liu 2007).
The wall clock times reported come from a production system where Condor was shared with other users and are therefore indicative of typical usage.
Intriguingly, the few studies of molecular clocks in annelids come from studies of Siboglinidae.
