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[The first] is a time card recorder, which is a clock so made that it will automatically stamp on a card inserted in a slot in the clock by the workman the time of his arrival and of his departure. The cards are made to hold a record covering the pay period and need no attention from a timekeeper or clerk until the termination of this period.
Cuckoo clock, a so-called Jagdstück ("hunt piece"), Black Forest, c. 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2006-013. A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, not typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close ...
Fortnum & Mason's automaton clock on the main facade, Piccadilly Circus. A Cuckoo clock with mechanical automaton that flaps its wing and opens its beak in time to the sound of a Cuckoo's call to indicate the hours on the analogue dial. An early 19th-century illustration [1] of Ctesibius's clepsydra from the 3rd century BC. The hour indicator ...
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The Cuckoo Clock (1986), by Mary Stolz and Pamela Johnson (illustrator). Cuckoo Clock (1986), by the writer Kavery Bhatt, art by Subir Roy. Cuckoo – Clock Cuckoo (1988), by the German illustrator and writer Annegert Fuchshuber. Sam Pig and the Cuckoo Clock (published in 1988), written by Alison Uttley and illustrated by Graham Percy.
A computer punched card reader or just computer card reader is a computer input device used to read computer programs in either source or executable form and data from punched cards. A computer card punch is a computer output device that punches holes in cards. Sometimes computer punch card readers were combined with computer card punches and ...
A punched card (also punch card [1] or punched-card [2]) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common in data processing and the control of automated machines .
Franz Ketterer (1676–1749) was an early Black Forest clockmaker from Schönwald im Schwarzwald in Germany. According to historians, he was one of several possible inventors of the cuckoo clock, although historical records from this period are scarce and often conflicting, and no cuckoo clock made by Ketterer can be found today. [1]