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Ingeborg Belling was born on 23 December 1848 in Bergen to master carpenter Carl Daniel Belling (1817–1889) and Serine "Siri" Andrine Torkildsdatter (c. 1828 –1879). [1] On 12 May 1872, she married actor Abraham Christian Hjalmar Frithjof Hammer in Christiania .
Belling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Reginald Belling (1884–1965), manufacturer of electric cookers; Ingeborg Belling (1848–1927), Norwegian actress; Johann Georg von Belling (1642–1689), Prussian general; John Belling (1866–1933), English cytogenetist; Kylie Belling (born 1964), Australian actress
Ingeborg Beling (6 March 1904 – 15 January 1988) was a German ethologist from the early 20th century who worked in the field of chronobiology.She studied at the University of Munich under the direction of Karl Von Frisch and is known for her research on the time sense of honey bees.
To run the clock on this small amount of energy, everything in the Atmos must be as friction-free as possible. For timekeeping it uses a torsion pendulum, which consumes less energy than an ordinary pendulum. The torsion pendulum has a period of precisely one minute; thirty seconds to rotate in one direction and thirty seconds to return to the ...
In 1912 Charles Arnold and Charles Belling formed Belling and Company making electric fires. Following his release from the army in 1919 Charles Arnold founded 'The Heavy Current Electrical Accessories Company' with Charles Belling as a shareholder. This was later renamed MK Electric. [1]
The clock won a Council Medal, and was moved from The Crystal Palace and erected at King's Cross Station but was replaced with an electronic bell and clock system in the mid 20th century. [citation needed] It was also Dent who built the mechanism for the 1907 clock placed on a clock tower upon Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. [3]
The words "Kit-Cat" were added to the clock's face in 1982. The original clocks were AC-powered, but due to scarcity of American-made AC motors, the clock was redesigned for battery power in the late 1980s. [3] The manufacturer estimates that an average of one clock has been sold every three minutes for the last 50 years. [4]
The rack and snail striking mechanism used in repeaters is described in detail in the striking clock article. Repeater clocks often had a cord with a button on the end protruding from the side of the clock. Pulling the cord actuated the repeater mechanism. This was called a pull repeater. Repeating carriage clocks have a button on the top to ...