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Ridgeway Clocks is a division of Howard Miller Company, and is a producer of longcase clocks, mantle clocks, and wall clocks. The company's facilities are located in Zeeland Michigan. According to Furniture Today magazine, Howard Miller is one of only three major manufacturers of floor clocks in the U.S. [citation needed]
A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock, with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall with an enclosed pendulum and weights, suspended by ...
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i have a ridgeway clock model no 120 with movement 32575d and serial no 1/20/82. i am in need of finding a local repairman. please forward via e-mail if possible. i would greately appreciate your help. my e-mail address is rmmcclung@aol.com thank you. — preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.67.27
The grandson laments the fate of the no-longer-functioning grandfather clock—it was sold to a junk dealer, who sold its parts for scrap and its case for kindling. In the grandfather's house, the clock was replaced by a wall clock , which the grandson disdains (referring to it as "that vain, stuck-up thing on the wall"). [ 2 ]
The Bily Clocks Museum is located in Spillville, Iowa, United States. The museum contains clocks that were made by hand from the years 1913 to 1958. [ 1 ] The clocks were made by Frank and Joseph Bily, together known as the Bily brothers. [ 2 ]
The reference to an earlier use of the term "grandfather clock" in the "Storyline" section has some serious problems: First, the source text cited is actually Wee Macgreegor, a collection of humorous sketches by "J.J.B."--the copy of Wee Macgreegor digitized by Google was bound with a much earlier edition of translations of Ovid by various hands (including John Dryden, thus the strange "Ovid ...
Grasshopper escapement, 1820. The grasshopper escapement is a low-friction escapement for pendulum clocks invented by British clockmaker John Harrison around 1722. An escapement, part of every mechanical clock, is the mechanism that gives the clock's pendulum periodic pushes to keep it swinging, and each swing releases the clock's gears to move forward by a fixed amount, thus moving the hands ...