The Great Detroit Clock
October 1975There seems to be a paucity of ingenious Bicentennial projects, especially compared to the ones that flourished during the 1816 Centennial. Consider, for instance, Felix Meier, a Detroit...
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THE GREAT HISTORICAL CLOCKDane A. PenlandDecember 1981 To its owners it was “The Eighth Wonder of the World … The Acme of Mechanical Science,” and even if those claims seem a little inflated, the...
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On November 18, 1883, the nation finally settled on the method of synchronizing all clocks that we call standard time. Why did it take so long to figure that one out?William Peirce...
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November/December 2006 The 3 Faces of George Washington The Buyable Past Resources The Gettysburg GospenDepartment Department Slug: History Now Department Byline: Harold Holzer
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George Nelson ClocksDavid LanderNovember/December 2006George Nelson said he got into furniture design by accident, and indeed the architect didn’t actually create many of the mid-twentieth-century...
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How Mount Vernon Rebuilt The First PresidentFrederick E. AllenNovember/December 2006 What did George Washington really look like? We have a lot of familiar pictures of him, but they never quite agree...
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November/December 2006 A book entitled George Nelson in the Compact Design Portfolio series succinctly summarizes its subject’s career in words and pictures. Original Nelson/Harper/Miller clocks are...
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