However, I'm 34 and I still remember the mechanical alarm clock that my parents had which displayed digital-like numerals on a series of "leaves" which "flipped" by gravity, as a mechanical gear-train churned away to keep the time.
The building is dark brick; its most recognizable feature, perhaps, is the 15-numeral digital-art installation blazed across its midsection, which can be seen from many Union Square approaches.
The number also evokes the binary numeral system used in digital technology.
L.E.D.'s are those ubiquitous little components of everything from wristwatches and microwave ovens to automobile dashboards; their silent, glowing, red or green numerals literally help put the "digit" in digital appliances.
During his tenure, IWC began producing thousands of pocket watches featuring jumping numerals in an avant-garde digital display.
In the 1880s, under Johannes Rauschenbach-Schenk, IWC began producing thousands of pocket watches featuring jumping numerals in an avant-garde digital display.
The number of each digit is indicated with roman numerals.
Numeral font nearly duplicates that of the "digital" mechanical clock built for Dresden's Semper Opera in 1841.
It has the same green-gray color scheme and a similar, now slightly retro typeface, as well as the sort of numerals that you'd see on an old digital clock.
