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At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.
On the top of the tower is a four-bar neon clock that indicates the time by displaying different colours in 15 minute intervals, blinking at the change of the quarter.
Included in this project have been the western walls of the medina, its skala, or bastion, and its colonial-period clock tower.
Other early versions of mechanical devices used to perform one or another type of calculations include the planisphere and other mechanical computing devices invented by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī ( c. AD 1000 ); the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī ( c. AD 1015 ); the astronomical analog computers of other medieval Muslim astronomers and engineers ; and the astronomical clock tower of Su Song ( c. AD 1090 ) during the Song Dynasty.
The college library, one of the finest in the university, with a Victorian neo-gothic clock tower, is endowed with an original copy of the first encyclopaedia to contain printed diagrams.
* The Night Sentry: An unnamed tower guard who cries " Twelve o ' clock and all's well ", etc., but can't resist ad libbing sarcastic commentary — much to the annoyance of the King, who suffers from insomnia.
A tall white-colored stone clock tower with a green roof is in the background
* 1077: Chinese official Su Song is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Liao Dynasty and discovers that the Khitan calendar is more mathematically accurate than the Song calendar ; Emperor Zhezong later sponsors Su Song's astronomical clock tower in order to compete with Liao astronomers.
* 1094: the astronomical clock tower of Kaifeng, China — engineered by the official Su Song — is completed.
The original diagram of Su Song's book Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao ( published 1092 ) showing the Water clock | clepsydra tank, waterwheel, escapement mechanism, chain drive, striking clock jacks, and armillary sphere of his clock tower.
* 1094 – The Chinese mechanical engineer and astronomer Su Song incorporates an escapement mechanism and the world's first known chain drive to operate the armillary sphere, the astronomical clock, and the striking clock jacks of his clock tower in Kaifeng.
* The Chinese polymath statesman and scientist Su Song has the successful pilot model for his astronomical clock tower constructed in Kaifeng, China.
The clock tower ( referred to as " Town Clock ") is equipped with a ship's signal bell system.
After defeating Moz and being directed to the clock tower, Richard works up through the upper levels of the castle and finds Rachel and Garo.
The curfew bell in the bell tower ( near the clock in the picture ), still sounds at 8. 00pm each evening.
The town hall, market place and clock tower formed the political and economic centre of city life.
There are two houses and two public objects on the list ; the Haller-Haus ( former Bishops Palace ) at Baselstrasse 61, the Sommerhaus Vigier at Untere Steingrubenstrasse 21, the Mauritius Fountain and the city clock tower.
Thomas Hughes ( like his fictional hero, Tom Brown ) once carved his name onto the hands of the school clock, situated on a tower above the Old Quad.
The building of the museum, along with the clock tower next to it, is one of the few buildings of the port and arsenal which survived Allied bombardments during World War II.
When Elizabeth arrived, time stood literally still, as the great tower clock of the castle was stopped for the time of her visit.
The first courtyard, the Base Court, ( B on plan ), was his creation, as was the second, inner gatehouse ( C ) which leads to the Clock Court ( D ) ( Wolsey's seal remains visible over the entrance arch of the clock tower ) which contained his private rooms ( O on plan ).

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But on the ensuing drive, the Steelers put the game out of reach with a 66 yard, 11 play scoring drive that took 6: 47 off the clock and featured three successful third down conversions.
The machine had vastly more application functionality, including a number of built-in application programs, an easy to use database, a diary and an alarm clock and featured end-user programmability in the form of the successful Organiser Programming Language ( OPL ), a BASIC-like language which was compiled to intermediate code, in contrast to the interpreters which were commonly available for other consumer computers of the time.
An interior diagram of the Astronomical clock | astronomical clocktower of Kaifeng featured in Su Song's book, written by 1092 and published in printed form by the year 1094.
In addition, Su Song's clock tower featured the world's first endless power-transmitting chain drive, an essential mechanical device found in many practical uses throughout the ages, such as the bicycle.
Su's tower featured a rotating gear wheel with 133 clock jack manikins who were timed to rotate past shuttered windows while ringing gongs and bells, banging drums, and presenting announcement plaques.
The machine's 48-bit processor ran at 10 MHz clock speed and featured two instruction pipelines, separate for the control and arithmetic units, and a data cache of 16 48-bit words.
In 2003 Buffett won his first ever Country Music Award ( CMA ) for his song " It's 5 O ' clock Somewhere " with Alan Jackson, and was nominated again in 2007 for the CMA Event of the Year Award for his song " Hey Good Lookin " which featured Alan Jackson and George Strait.
* Project AA stunt featured Jackie Chan hanging off a real clock tower and falling through three ripped canopies used to break his fall before hitting the ground.
The famous art deco facade and clock of Shell Mex House is also featured in exterior shots.
That game featured Kaleb Toth's dramatic game-winning goal with a second left on the clock, in the last-ever professional sporting event held at Maple Leaf Gardens.
Residents often used phrase " Meet me under Kaufmann's clock " and it continues to be featured in visual materials representing and marketing the city.
In 2006, USA Today published an article about the regional chains being merged into Macy's, and the piece featured memories from Pittsburghers about the store and the clock: " As girls in their best dresses and Mary Jane shoes, they rode streetcars downtown to the 11-story Kaufmann's department store here.
It featured 128 KB total on-die L1 cache, 4 MB full speed off-chip L2 on a 128 bit bus, and a clock of 125 MHz.
The instrument cluster featured an ammeter, fuel gauge, temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge and clock in set of smaller stacked pods near the centre of the instrument panel.
The ducking stool is on public display in Leominster Priory ; a mechanised depiction of it is featured on the town clock.
On the other hand, the elephant clock, invented by the Arab inventor Al-Jazari, featured a humanoid automaton in the form of a mahout striking a cymbal and a mechanical bird chirping after every hour or half-hour.
It featured the same silver-painted 13 " steel wheels as the " L " but with satin chrome half-width centre caps ( only covering the centre of the wheel ), a digital clock on the top of the dashboard, cloth interior trim, grey body side mouldings, a rear windscreen wiper, grey tailgate and beaver panel garnishes and 50 / 50 split-fold rear seat.
* SL / X: introduced with LB series featured cloth trim, a digital clock and a combined radio receiver and Compact Cassette player.
A memorable Northup ad featured a clip of Jordan speaking in the Kentucky House's floor, urging colleagues to hurry up and vote a bill, saying " I have a fund-raiser at 6 o ' clock and I want to get out of here.
It featured a stainless steel roof, air suspension, the first automatic two-position " memory " power seats, a dual four-barrel V-8, low profile tires with thin white-walls, automatic trunk opener, Cruise Control, high pressure coooling system, polarized sun visors, Signal-Seeking twin speaker radio, electric antenna, automatic-release parking brake, electric door locks, dual heating system, silver magnetized glovebox, drink tumblers, cigarette and tissue dispensers, lipstick and cologne, ladies compact with powder puff, mirror and matching leather notebook, comb and mirror, Arpège atomizer with Lanvin perfume, automatic starter with restart function, Autronic Eye, drum-type electric clock, power windows, forged aluminum wheels and air conditioning.
All were embedded in a new section that featured a wide terrace and a clock tower.
The market square adjacent to the clock tower was featured in the artwork to Pulps 1995 album " Different Class ".
The eight metre high structure also featured sundials, and a water clock inside dates from around 50 BC.
The 33-million transistor chip extended significantly the execution pipeline of 7400 ( 7 vs. 4 stages minimum ) to reach higher clock speeds, improved instruction throughput ( 3 + branch vs. 2 + branch per cycle ) to compensate for higher instruction latency, replaced an external L2 cache ( up to 2 MB 2-way set associative, 64-bit data path ) with an integrated one ( 256 KB 8-way set associative, 256-bit data path ), supported an external L3 cache ( up to 2 MB 8-way set associative, 64-bit data path ), and featured many other architectural advancements.

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