Shepherd Gate Clock (Q7494494)

  • matcher place: Royal Borough of Greenwich (relation 51902), London (relation 65606)
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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Shepherd Gate Clock (51°28′41″N 0°00′05″W) is mounted on the wall outside the gate of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich building in Greenwich, Greater London. The clock, an early example of an electrically connected clock system, was a sympathetic clock mechanism controlled by electric pulses transmitted by a motor clock inside the main building. The network of 'sympathetic clocks' was constructed and installed by Charles Shepherd in 1852. The clock by the gate was probably the first to display Greenwich Mean Time to the public, and is unusual in using the 24-hour analog dial. Also, it originally showed astronomical time which started at noon, not midnight.

Summary from Deutsch / German Wikipedia (dewiki)

Die Shepherd Gate Clock (51° 28′ 40,6″ N, 0° 0′ 5,1″ W) ist eine Uhr, die im rechten Torpfeiler des Eingangsportals des Royal Greenwich Observatory eingebaut ist. Zur Außenseite hin ist das Zifferblatt angebracht, während auf der Innenseite hinter einer Glasfront der Mechanismus zum Antrieb der Zeiger zu sehen ist.

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node: Shepherd Gate Clock (OSM), 0 metres from Wikidata [show tags]
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name: Shepherd Gate Clock
faces: 1
amenity: clock
display: analog
support: wall_mounted
historic: clock
wikidata: Q7494494

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