Grandfather Clock
Melinda McNeal
Art Appreciation 1301
Matthew Guest
Everyday use You can see Art in everything around you and in things you use every day. Everything around you is art. The object I chose to discuss that I use every day is my Grandfather Clock. It was passed down to me from my Grandmother. I use it and admire it every day. It is definitely a work of art to me. Think of all the work that was put into making a Grandfathers clock.
The definition of a Grandfather Clock is a clock in a tall freestanding wooden case, driven by weights. Grandfather Clocks have been a part of family legacies including my own for generations. My Grandfather clock is a “Ridgeway”. The Manufacturer is Ridgeway Clocks. They are the oldest continuously produced grandfather brand in the United States. It is beautiful and when you walk into my living room, you feel a sense of family just with its presence. It is made of hardwood and has a beautiful finish. It has an elegant swan's neck pediment. There is an interior light that lights up the clock. There is a beautiful burl back panel that you can see behind the cables, weights and a swinging pendulum. It has echoing chimes.
Grandfather clocks are complex in design. The pendulum within its encasement swings sideways, this causes the suspended weights to drop. The force of the weights pilot the clock's movement, and the anchor attached to the pendulum turns an interior gear, resulting in a ticking clock.
According to EHow, it is commonly thought that Galileo sketched the first representations of a long case clock in the sixteenth century. However, it wasn't until almost one hundred years later that Christian Huygens finally constructed the drawings. The original designs could not tell time, but were a breakthrough in clock making innovation. Over the next fifty years, inventors worked to improve on the grandfather clock technology. William Clement is credited with the grandfather clock advancement in 1670: the creation of the
Art Appreciation 1301
Matthew Guest
Everyday use You can see Art in everything around you and in things you use every day. Everything around you is art. The object I chose to discuss that I use every day is my Grandfather Clock. It was passed down to me from my Grandmother. I use it and admire it every day. It is definitely a work of art to me. Think of all the work that was put into making a Grandfathers clock.
The definition of a Grandfather Clock is a clock in a tall freestanding wooden case, driven by weights. Grandfather Clocks have been a part of family legacies including my own for generations. My Grandfather clock is a “Ridgeway”. The Manufacturer is Ridgeway Clocks. They are the oldest continuously produced grandfather brand in the United States. It is beautiful and when you walk into my living room, you feel a sense of family just with its presence. It is made of hardwood and has a beautiful finish. It has an elegant swan's neck pediment. There is an interior light that lights up the clock. There is a beautiful burl back panel that you can see behind the cables, weights and a swinging pendulum. It has echoing chimes.
Grandfather clocks are complex in design. The pendulum within its encasement swings sideways, this causes the suspended weights to drop. The force of the weights pilot the clock's movement, and the anchor attached to the pendulum turns an interior gear, resulting in a ticking clock.
According to EHow, it is commonly thought that Galileo sketched the first representations of a long case clock in the sixteenth century. However, it wasn't until almost one hundred years later that Christian Huygens finally constructed the drawings. The original designs could not tell time, but were a breakthrough in clock making innovation. Over the next fifty years, inventors worked to improve on the grandfather clock technology. William Clement is credited with the grandfather clock advancement in 1670: the creation of the