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- Bracket_clock abstract "A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term originated with small weight driven pendulum clocks (sometimes called 'true bracket clocks') that had to be mounted on a bracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights. When spring-driven clocks were developed, which didn't require hanging weights to power them, they continued to be made in the bracket style. Often they are composed of two matching pieces created as an ensemble: the clock and its small decorative shelf. They are almost always made of wood, often ebony, and often ornamented with ormolu mounts, brass inlay, wood or tortoise shell veneer, or decorative varnish. Since in their day clocks were expensive, and a household would not have one in every room, bracket clocks usually had handles to carry them from room to room. These clocks were almost always repeaters, that is striking clocks which could be made to repeat the striking of the hours at the pull of a lever or cord. This feature was used before artificial illumination to tell what time it was at night. However, because they were often used in bedrooms where the hourly striking of the bell could disturb sleepers, they either had a knob to silence the hourly striking, or did not strike on the hour at all but only at the pull of the cord. These were called 'silent pull repeaters'.".
- Bracket_clock thumbnail Bracket_Clock_by_Daniel_Quare.jpg?width=300.
- Bracket_clock wikiPageID "1088244".
- Bracket_clock wikiPageRevisionID "543871989".
- Bracket_clock hasPhotoCollection Bracket_clock.
- Bracket_clock subject Category:Clocks.
- Bracket_clock subject Category:Horology.
- Bracket_clock type Artifact100021939.
- Bracket_clock type Clock103046257.
- Bracket_clock type Clocks.
- Bracket_clock type Device103183080.
- Bracket_clock type Instrument103574816.
- Bracket_clock type Instrumentality103575240.
- Bracket_clock type MeasuringInstrument103733925.
- Bracket_clock type Object100002684.
- Bracket_clock type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Bracket_clock type Timepiece104437953.
- Bracket_clock type Whole100003553.
- Bracket_clock comment "A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term originated with small weight driven pendulum clocks (sometimes called 'true bracket clocks') that had to be mounted on a bracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights. When spring-driven clocks were developed, which didn't require hanging weights to power them, they continued to be made in the bracket style.".
- Bracket_clock label "Bracket clock".
- Bracket_clock label "Stockuhr".
- Bracket_clock sameAs Stockuhr.
- Bracket_clock sameAs m.044y4v.
- Bracket_clock sameAs Q2350836.
- Bracket_clock sameAs Q2350836.
- Bracket_clock sameAs Bracket_clock.
- Bracket_clock wasDerivedFrom Bracket_clock?oldid=543871989.
- Bracket_clock depiction Bracket_Clock_by_Daniel_Quare.jpg.
- Bracket_clock isPrimaryTopicOf Bracket_clock.
