The Seth Thomas Tower Clock in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse The Santa Barbara Courthouse clock Click on image for web cam Click here to hear the clock The Santa Barbara Courthouse is home to a rare Seth Thomas model 18 tower clock built and installed in 1929. Beginning in 2009, the clock has ...

The Wind Recently we noticed that the clock rate, which had been running smoothly for several days, became substantially disturbed for no apparent reason. In the graph below you can see that the rate (dark red line) is stable until about 10 o'clock. Then it gets progressively more disturbed, with tw...

An Original Electromagnetic Clock This clock is an original design of an electromagnetic clock. That is to say, it uses electromagnetism to keep the pendulum swinging. It is not a quartz clock, and keeps time by the natural motion of the pendulum. The clock is 55" tall and has a 7" dial. The case is...

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Bells Our Seth Thomas tower clock was built to strike bells when it was made in 1929. But the bells were never bought, so the striking mechanism was never fully assembled or operated. In the current restoration, we are now running the complete striking mechanism on replicas of the bells that would h...