Marble angels crown Cedar Rapids’ Buresh Immigration Clock Tower in Czech Village

Two hand-carved marble angels have been installed atop the astronomical clock tower at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & ...
The Gazette

Czech Village museum’s Clock Tower to add Prague-style astronomical clock features, figurines

CEDAR RAPIDS — Some clocks just go “tick tock.” A few do astronomical things. By fall, the Clock Tower standing silently in Czech Village will sing and dance, and show the phases of the sun and moon, ...
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Tell Time And Predict The Heavens With This Astronomical Timepiece

Looking for a new project, or just want to admire some serious mechanical intricacy? Check out [illusionmanager]’s Astronomical Clock which not only tells time, but shows the the positions of the ...
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First astronomical clock tower in United States dedicated in Cedar Rapids by Czech, Slovak presidents

CEDAR RAPIDS — With Czech and Slovak dignitaries and hundreds of visitors in attendance, Friday’s clock tower dedication near the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library’s cul-de-sac was a full ...
Astronomy

Tour Europe’s great celestial clocks

All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of sunrise and sunset, the phases of the Moon, and the seasons. We left some of ...
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Geared to the Stars. The Evolution of Planetariums, Orreries, and Astronomical Clocks, by Henry C. King in collaboration with John R. Millburn

Bedini, Silvio A. 1980. [Book review] "Geared to the Stars. The Evolution of Planetariums, Orreries, and Astronomical Clocks, by Henry C. King in collaboration with John R. Millburn." Sky and ...
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Tour Europe's great celestial clocks

All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of sunrise and sunset, the phases of the Moon, and the seasons. We left some of ...