The clock's face carries a name that railroaders remember, that of the Self Winding Clock Company of New York.
By the eighteen-eighties, new commercial technologies — such as those of the Self-Winding Clock Company, in Brooklyn — eliminated the need for mariners to recalibrate chronometers, and therefore the need for public time signals.
It turns experiences from the material world that used to be ridiculously complicated — involving licking stamps, say, or winding clocks — into frictionless, flashing and fantastic abstractions.
"In 1989, for example, one boat was dismasted off the coast of Fire Island in a thunderstorm with winds clocked at 96 miles an hour," he said.
"The time was picked up from the Naval Observatory in Washington and transmitted by Western Union to Self Winding clocks, which were in the train stations everywhere," she said.
After reviewing footage of the wind gusts at the market, National Weather Service forecaster Karl Swanberg said it appeared that the winds clocked in at about 45 mph.
Maximum sustained winds clocked at 88 km/h (55 mph) in Chiba, Chiba and Ojima, Tokyo, were the strongest ever recorded in December for those locations.
The monster storm formed a half-mile wide ball of debris made of several smaller tornadoes moving in tandem, with winds clocking in over 200 miles per hour.
Footstomping drum beats actually get paired with images of feet stomping, while the opening staccato guitar lick will get paired with fragmented body motions like a woman eating a pickle in jump cuts, or a kid winding clocks.
Wind the clock forward 161 years to Warrington, August, 2007.
To understand that, it's necessary to wind the clock back a decade.
