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The Encyclopedia of Horology

Slave (electric) public clock · England

Shepherd Gate Clock

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A 24-hour dial at the gate of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, driven by electrical signals from the observatory's master clock; among the first to show Greenwich Mean Time to the public.

Technical facts

Dial
24-hour
Drive
Electrical impulses from a master clock

Historical significance

  • A 24-hour dial at the gate of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, driven by electrical signals from the observatory's master clock; among the first to show Greenwich Mean Time to the public.

Related photographs

Shortt Synchronome free pendulum clock
Shortt Synchronome free pendulum clock — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain. Wikimedia Commons file page

No confidently matched photograph of this subject has been found yet. These photographs show a closely related record, and are not examples of the type described on this page.

Sources & references

  1. Royal Museums Greenwich, notes on the Shepherd Gate Clock

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.