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      A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock, with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall with an enclosed pendulum and weights, suspended by either cables or chains, which have to be occasionally calibrated to keep the proper time. The case often features elaborately carved ornamentation on the hood (or bonnet), which surrounds and frames the dial, or clock face.
      The English clockmaker William Clement is credited with developing the form in 1670. Pendulum clocks were the world's most accurate timekeeping technology until the early 20th century, and longcase clocks, due to their superior accuracy, served as time standards for households and businesses. Today, they are kept mainly for their decorative and antique value, having been superseded by analog and digital timekeepers.


      Naming



      The Oxford English Dictionary states that the popular 1876 song My Grandfather's Clock is responsible for the common name "grandfather clock" being applied to the longcase clock.

      The song was composed by the American songwriter Henry Clay Work, who discovered a longcase clock in The George Hotel in Piercebridge, County Durham, England. When he asked about the clock, he was informed that it had had two owners. After the first owner died, the clock became inaccurate, and when the second owner died, the clock stopped working altogether. The story inspired Henry to create the song.
      Grandfather clocks are of a certain height, usually at least 1.9 metres (6 ft 3 in). There are also so-called "grandmother" and "granddaughter" clocks, which are slightly shorter.
      The world's tallest grandfather clock is 35 feet 10 inches (10.92 m) tall and is fully operational, with chimes on each quarter hour. It was made by Svoboda Industries in 1976 as a Bicentennial project and is located in Kewaunee, Wisconsin.


      Origin



      The advent of the longcase clock was due to the invention of the anchor escapement mechanism by Robert Hooke in about 1658. Before adopting the anchor mechanism, pendulum clock movements used an older verge escapement mechanism, which required very wide pendulum swings of about 80–100 degrees. Long pendulums with such wide swings could not be fitted within a case, so most free-standing clocks had short pendulums.

      The anchor mechanism reduced the pendulum's swing to around 4 to 6 degrees, allowing clockmakers to use longer pendulums, which had slower "beats". They consumed less power, allowing clocks to run longer between windings, caused less friction and wear in the movement, and were more accurate. Almost all longcase clocks use a seconds pendulum (also called a "Royal" pendulum) meaning that each swing (or half-period) takes one second. They are about 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) long (to the centre of the bob), requiring a long, narrow case. That case pre-dated the anchor clock by a few decades, appearing in clocks in 1660, to allow a long drop for the powering weights. However, once the seconds pendulum began to be used, the long case proved perfect for housing it as well.
      British clockmaker William Clement, who disputed credit for the anchor escapement with Robert Hooke, had made the first longcase clocks by 1680. Later the same year, Thomas Tompion, the most prominent British clockmaker, was making them too. Longcase clocks spread rapidly from England to other European countries and Asia.
      The first longcase clocks, like all clocks prior to the anchor escapement, had only one hand; an hour hand. The increased accuracy made possible by the anchor motivated the addition of the minute hand to clock faces in the next few decades.
      Between 1680 and 1800, the average price of a grandfather clock in England remained steady at £1 10s. In 1680, that was the amount paid by an average working family for a year's rent, so the purchase of clocks was confined to the wealthy. But by 1800, wages had increased enough to allow many lower middle-class households to own grandfather clocks.
      Modern longcase clocks use a more accurate variation of the anchor escapement called the deadbeat escapement.


      Description



      Traditionally, longcase clocks were made with two types of movement: eight-day and one-day (30-hour) movements. A clock with an eight-day movement required winding only once a week, while generally less-expensive 30-hour clocks had to be wound daily. Eight-day clocks are often driven by two weights – one driving the pendulum and the other the striking mechanism, which usually consisted of a bell or chimes. Such movements usually have two keyholes, one on each side of the dial, to wind each weight.
      By contrast, 30-hour clocks often had a single weight to drive the timekeeping and striking mechanisms. Some 30-hour clocks were made with false keyholes for customers who wanted guests to think that the household was able to afford the more expensive eight-day clock. All modern striking longcase clocks have eight-day mechanical quarter chiming and full hour striking movements. Most longcase clocks are cable-driven, meaning that cables suspend the weights. If the cable was attached directly to the weight, the load would cause rotation and untwist the cable strands, so the cable wraps around a pulley mounted to the top of each weight. The mechanical advantage of that arrangement also doubles the running time allowed by a given weight drop.
      Cable clocks are wound by inserting a special crank (called a "key") into holes in the clock's face and turning it. Others, however, are chain-driven, meaning that the weights are suspended by chains that wrap around gears in the clock's mechanism, with the other end of the chain hanging down next to the weight. To wind a chain-driven longcase clock, one pulls on the end of each chain, lifting the weights until they are just under the clock's face.


      Elaborate striking sequences


      In the early 20th century, quarter-hour chime sequences were added to longcase clocks. A full chime sequence sounds at the top of each hour, immediately followed by the hour strike. At 15 minutes after each hour, 1/4 of the chime sequence plays. Proceeding that, at the bottom of each hour, 1/2 of the chime sequence plays. Then finally, at 15 minutes before each hour, 3/4 of the chime sequence plays. The chime tune used in almost all longcase clocks is Westminster Quarters. Many also offer the option of Whittington chimes or St. Michael's chimes, selectable by a switch mounted on the right side of the dial, allowing one to silence the chimes if desired. As a result of adding chime sequences, all modern mechanical longcase clocks have three weights instead of only two. The left weight provides power for the hour strike, the middle-weight provides power for the clock's pendulum and general timekeeping functions, and the right weight provides power for the quarter-hour chime sequences.


      Types




      = Comtoise

      =
      Comtoise clocks, also known as Morbier clocks or Morez clocks, are a style of longcase clock made in the French region Franche-Comté (hence their name). Features distinguishing this style are a curving "potbellied" case and a greater use of curved lines. A heavy, elongated, highly ornamented pendulum bob often extends up the case (see photo).
      Production of these clocks began in 1680 and continued for about 230 years. During the peak production years (1850–1890) over 60,000 clocks were made each year. These clocks were trendy across the generations; they kept the time on farms throughout France. Many Comtoise clocks can be found in France but they are also frequently found in Spain, Germany, and other parts of Europe, less in the United States. Many Comtoise clocks were also exported to other countries in Europe and even farther, to the Ottoman Empire and as far as Thailand. A wooden sheath usually protected the metal mechanisms during transport.


      = Bornholm and Mora

      =

      Bornholm clocks are Danish longcase clocks and were made on Bornholm from 1745 to 1900. In Sweden a special variety of longcase clocks was made in Mora, called Mora clocks.
      Bornholm clock-making began in the 1740s when an English ship, which had longcase clocks in its hold, was stranded. They were sent for repair to a turner named Poul Ottesen Arboe in Rønne and as a result of his repair of them he learned enough about clocks to begin to make his own.


      Historical manufacturers



      British

      John Alker or Alker of Wigan, Lancashire
      Allam & Clements
      Samuel Ashton, Ashbourne
      William Barrow, London
      Bilbie family, Somerset
      Thomas Birchall Nantwich, Cheshire
      Peter Bower, Redlynch, Wiltshire
      Joseph Bowles, Winbourne (i.e.: Wimbourne), Dorset; active 1791
      Samuel Bowles, Wimbourne, Dorset
      Robert Bryson, Edinburgh
      William Bucknall, Burslem (Stoke-on-Trent)
      Thomas Bullock, Bath, Somerset
      Samuel Buxton, Diss, Norfolk
      John Calver, Woodbridge, Suffolk
      Thomas Cartwright
      John Clement & Son (Tring, Hertfordshire)
      Thomas Dobbie, Gorbals, Glasgow
      Richard Donisthorp (fl. 1797), of Loughborough
      Matthew & Thomas Dutton
      Peter Fearnley, Wigan
      John Fernhill, Wrexham
      Thomas Hackney, London, c. 1700–1750
      Edward Harrison, Warrington
      John Harrison, Wakefield/Barrow upon Humber/London
      Enoch Hawksey (d. 1799) of Nantwich, Cheshire, active c. 1779 – 1799
      Nathaniel Hedge, Colchester, Essex
      Holmes
      Edward Houlgrave (1739 – 1789), b. Liverpool, active in London c. 1780s
      Ellis Houlgrave (1759 – 1793), son of Edward Houlgrave, b. Liverpool, active in London c. 1778 – 1789
      James Howden, Edinburgh
      Thomas Husband, Hull
      Thomas Johnson
      John Knibb, Oxford and London
      Joseph Knibb, Oxford and London
      William Lassell (1758–1790), Toxteth Park, Liverpool
      Timothy Mason, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
      Alexander Miller, Montrose
      Peddie, Stirling, Scotland
      Daniel Quare
      Thomas Ross, Hull
      John Snelling, Alton
      John Trubshaw, London
      Warry, Bristol
      James Woolley Codnor
      Thomas Worswick, Lancaster
      Thomas Wright
      Henry Young, Swaffham, Norfolk
      John Wyld, Nottingham
      Stephen Harris, Tonbridge
      Watkin Owen, Llanrwst
      Irish

      W Egan & Sons, Cork
      James Mangan, Cork
      Ezekiel Bullock, Lurgan
      Alexander Gordon, Dublin
      Finnish

      Masters of Könni Könnin mestarit (1757–1865), Ilmajoki
      Finnish Museum of Horology is master of Jaakko Könni manufactured table clocks and pocket watches
      Ilmajoki Museum is Masters of Könni manufactured horse vehicles, clocks, looms, locks, tools, machine of gear "keervärkki"
      Americans

      Ansonia Clock Company (1851–2006), Ansonia, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York
      Benjamin Bagnall (1689–1773), Boston
      Aaron Brokaw (1768–1853), Bridge Town, New Jersey
      Isaac Brokaw (1746–1826), Bridge Town, New Jersey
      Silas Merriman (1733–1805), New Haven, Connecticut
      Aaron Miller ( –1778), Elizabeth Township, New Jersey
      Luman Watson (1790–1834), Cincinnati
      Simon Willard (1753–1848), Roxbury, Massachusetts
      Zachariah Grandfather Clocks (1975–1987), Chicago, Illinois
      Daniel White Griswold (1767-1844), Harwinton, Connecticut
      Australian casemaker

      Harry Williams – Oxford Cabinet Company Pty Ltd (1946–1961), Granville, New South Wales, Australia


      Current manufacturers


      Hermle Clocks – Amherst VA
      Howard Miller Clock Company – Zeeland MI
      Ridgeway Clocks (owned now by Howard Miller Clock Co.)
      Seth Thomas Clock Company - (reopened under the Colibri Group)


      References




      External links


      Media related to Longcase clocks at Wikimedia Commons

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