Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy clocked 42.600 seconds, beating the mark they set in the previous round.
"Rise, sir!" The alarm clock had cast me in my own bad movie.
The clock was designed by Edmund Beckett Denison (later Sir Edmund Beckett and Lord Grimthorpe) in association with Sir George Airy (then astronomer royal) and the clockmaker Edward Dent.
The ominous ticking comes from the Department of Horology at the Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, where the first successful longitude clock, the H-4, built by Sir John Harrison in 1760, is kept.
"I can't account for the past, I can't reset the clock, I can't change history," Sir Bernard said.
The policeman clocked the lot, said "Very good, sir" and flagged him on.
There is a bigger and more abiding consolation — the fact that I am free to write what I wish, that I have to follow no clock, that I need call no man "sir" and defer to him through fear.
In 1851, in association with Sir George Airy (then astronomer royal) and the clock maker Edward John Dent, Denison undertook the design of the clock for the tower of the Houses of Parliament; Denison's principal contribution was a novel gravity escapement that imparted unprecedented accuracy to the clock.
In 1814, Sir Francis Ronalds (1788) of London invented the forerunner of an electric clock, the electrostatic clock.
Their rambling home was filled with beautiful antique furniture, not to mention Sir White's collection of English lantern clocks.
