Sentence examples for of mechanical clock from inspiring English sources

The thing looked like some sort of mechanical clock.

Consider, for example, the earliest examples of mechanical clocks in the 14th century.

Only with the advent of mechanical clocks in western Europe at the end of the 13th century did seasonal (unequal) hours become inconvenient.

But sandglasses proved clumsy and inexact and were replaced by a pair of mechanical clocks after a simple pendulum device was introduced at London 1883.

His interests in clocks and the diversity of clockwork brought him to the New York Public Library at 42nd and 5th Avenue where he spent years educating himself in the history of mechanical clocks, and their technological changes over the centuries.

Only when assured he was not working on a gloomy violin piece — the monicker for a purple-prose mood setter in the front of the then-thick newsmagazines — did I, the speechwriter-source, do the ticktock, a term from the era of mechanical clocks that lingers on (although it has since lost its hyphen).

Although not as prominent as in the Song period, contemporary Chinese texts of the Ming Dynasty (1368 1644) described a relatively unbroken history of mechanical clocks in China, from the 13th century to the 16th.

The Ottoman engineer Taqi al-Din described a weight-driven clock with a verge-and-foliot escapement, a striking train of gears, an alarm, and a representation of the moon's phases in his book The Brightest Stars for the Construction of Mechanical Clocks (Al-Kawākib al-durriyya fī wadh' al-bankāmat al-dawriyya), written around 1556.

For example, one legendary routine on "Your Show of Shows," the clock sketch, presents the burlesque-y fable of a mechanical clock in Bavaria that every hour propelled life-size automatons played by Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris out its doors to chime the bells.

A mercury clock, described in the Libros del saber de Astronomia, a Spanish work from 1277 consisting of translations and paraphrases of Arabic works, is sometimes quoted as evidence for Muslim knowledge of a mechanical clock.

For centuries afterward technological achievements could be measured by the evolution of the mechanical clock.