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Topic: Clock

Related:
  Time Clock    Alarm Clock  
  Wall Clock    Clock Radio  
  Digital Clock    Clock Face  
  Atomic Clock    Desk Clock  
  Clock Works    Grandfather Clock  
  Clock Tower    Clock Repair  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Che Guevara,  Thomas Edison
Favorite possession(s):Vacuum cleaner,  Wiretap kit,  Care bears
Favorite era(s):1950s
Favorite board game(s):Chess,  Scrabble
Favorite body part(s):Ears
Favorite activity(s):Sleeping
Favorite book(s):"Relativity: The Special and the General Theory" by Albert Einstein
Favorite animal(s):Poodle
Favorite great thinker(s):Christian Huygens
Favorite movie(s):The Three Stooges
Likes to wear:Digital watch,  Ancient Egyption,  Sixties
Favorite quote(s):"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Furthermore, all clocks and other devices which would give an indication of time should be photographed in order to determine when electricity to these items ceased or when heat sources were such that they caused sufficient damage to interrupt their operation.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

The clocks Shott builds are not exact replicas, but are inspired by styles originated by Delaware Valley clockmakers working in the last half of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Clocks are not required to be set correctly by the basic SSL Protocol; higher level or application protocols may define additional requirements.
Clocks on chips with eight bit bytes tick Chips with clocks and eight byte bits tock.
Dozens of clocks may be networked together thoughout your facility and controlled from your PC.
Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

Sports Clocks For all those sports fanatics who wish the game went on all year, now you can capture the excitement of your favorite team with these sports clocks!
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Clocks at this time needed to be big so that the weights had a long drop, otherwise the weights required to be wound up frequently, but the Strasbourg clock was more than just a clock for it related time to all its astronomical origins.
Accurate mobile clocks preceded the mapping of the Earth, by determining simultaneity at a distance.
Mod clocks make for explicit discussion of operations, and for deeper understanding of the structures underlying the real number system.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

New cuckoo clocks are shipped with a list of authorized repair stations, showing where you may send your clock for warranty service.
Most of these clocks require support in the form of a serial port or special bus peripheral.
MIDI clocks are actually special messages that are sent 24 times (normally) per beat, and are used to synchronize two sequencers, or a sequencer and a drum machine.
 
 
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