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English: Corpus Christi Clock, Cambridge The gold-plated timepiece, which is four feet across, was officially unveiled at Corpus Christi College on 19 September 2008 by Stephen Hawking. The mechanical clock was designed and paid for by Dr John Taylor, an honorary fellow at the college, where it has pride of place on the college's new library. The clock is powered by a pendulum, driven by a mechanism in the shape of a giant grasshopper. The grasshopper was sculpted by Cambridge-based artist Matthew Lane Sanderson, and the whole timepiece was put together by Huxley Bertram Engineering at Cottenham.
It has no hands or digital numerals. Instead there is a series of slits cut into the face, and blue LED lights are arranged behind the slits, which run round rapidly in concentric circles and pause at the correct hour, minute, and second. Its massive round face was engineered from a single sheet of stainless steel, and gold-plated. |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Richard Rogerson and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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