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Weird stuff in London (9)- Clocks

In Uncategorized on June 18, 2010 at 11:12 pm

Astrological clocks.

Lunar clocks.

Sundials

Moondials

Left handed clocks were the hands move backwards.

Clocks that are disguised as buildings and monuments..

Clocks powered by the rotation of the earth (I am not sure if this is the London example)

The Greenwich meridian which grandly calls itself ‘the home of time’.

Where imaginary lines are marked out by laser beams.

All time and map references converge on this point- unless you are French.

Musical clocks, heat clocks, expansion clocks, thousand-year clocks, rainwater clocks and just plain wrong clocks. Just look…

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