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Clockwork is set in the fictional town of Glockenheim in Germany in "the old days". It has three main characters: Karl, an apprentice clockmaker who has failed to make a figure for the town clock; Gretl, who is a very selfless young girl and is the daughter of the innkeeper of Glockenheim and Fritz, a local writer whose unfinished story sets the gears of Clockwork turning.
Automata built for the sake of art, amusement, and simulation have been described since antiquity, in cases such as Heron of Alexandria designing clockwork birds during the Hellenistic Period. [2] Leonardo da Vinci is frequently credited with constructing a mechanical lion , which he presented to King Francois I in Lyon in 1515.
A postulated interior of the Duck of Vaucanson (1738–1739) Clockwork crayfish automoton, made in Augsburg in 1589, Technical Instrument Museum, Dresden Pinocchio automaton An automaton ( / ɔː ˈ t ɒ m ə t ən / ⓘ ; pl. : automata or automatons ) is a relatively self-operating machine , or control mechanism designed to automatically ...
Clockwork Mouse (voiced by Joanna Ruiz in the UK and Kathleen Barr in the US) is a perky wind-up toy mouse who isn't sometimes feeling dwarfed by the other inhabitants of Toyland for his size. Mr. Wobblyman (voiced by Ben Small in the UK and Ian James Corlett in the US) is a roly-poly toy who is always diligent about doing the right thing.
Virgin Punk (Japanese: ヴァージン・パンク, Hepburn: Vājin Panku) is an upcoming original anime film series created by director Yasuomi Umetsu and animation production studio Shaft.
The Clockwork Three is a 2010 novel by American author Matthew J. Kirby. Set in a fictional coastal city in the late nineteenth century, it follows three children: Giuseppe, Hannah, and Frederick who work to solve each other's problems.
A clockwork mechanism is often powered by a clockwork motor [4] consisting of a mainspring, a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon. Energy is stored in the mainspring manually by winding it up, turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter. Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork gears, until the stored ...
A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month, and the year. Devices operating on several physical processes have been used over the millennia.