Timekeeping Collection

English Watches, 1947. Creator: Unknown
English Watches, 1947. From "British Clocks and Clockmakers, by Kenneth Ullyett. [Collins, London, 1947]

Chiming Mantel Clock with Moon-Work in Red and Gold Lacquer Case, 1947. Creator: Unknown
Chiming Mantel Clock with Moon-Work in Red and Gold Lacquer Case, 1947. From "British Clocks and Clockmakers, by Kenneth Ullyett. [Collins, London, 1947]

Alarum and Striking Mantel Clock in Ebony-Veneered Case, 1947. Creator: Unknown
Alarum and Striking Mantel Clock in Ebony-Veneered Case, 1947. From "British Clocks and Clockmakers, by Kenneth Ullyett. [Collins, London, 1947]

Thirty-Hour Striking Hanging Clock in Inlaid Marqueterie Case, 1947. Creator: Unknown
Thirty-Hour Striking Hanging Clock in Inlaid Marqueterie Case, 1947. From "British Clocks and Clockmakers, by Kenneth Ullyett. [Collins, London, 1947]

Thirty-Hour Striking and Alarum Brass Lantern Clock, 1947. Creator: Unknown
Thirty-Hour Striking and Alarum Brass Lantern Clock, 1947. From "British Clocks and Clockmakers, by Kenneth Ullyett. [Collins, London, 1947]

Le regulateur, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le regulateur, 19th century. Monomaniacs - The regulator

Encore une heure!!, 1837. Creator: Honore Daumier
Encore une heure!!, 1837. Another hour

Reconstruction of a clepsydra (water clock), invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, c270 BC (1857). Ctesibius (fl270 BC) was an inventor

The Time Ball, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Fig. 7, 1844. Creator: Unknown
The Time Ball, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Fig. 7, 1844. The hour of one o clock is announced by the descent of a large black ball, from the summit of a pole

Telling time at night using a nocturnal, 1539. The hour is obtained by measuring the angular position of the imaginary line joining the pointers in the constellation of the Plough to the Pole Star

Surveying and timekeeping, 1551. On the left are various different kinds of sundial and a clock with a single arm. On the right a survey is being made of the height of the tower, using quadrants

Clepsydra (water clock) indicating hours and chiming, 1617-1619. From Utriusque cosmi...historia by Robert Fludd (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

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