Neatorama Posts Tagged with "alarm clocks"

Sundial Alarm Clock Goes off with a Bang

This unusual clock is a solar cannon. It's a sundial that fires a tiny cannon when the heat of sunlight, concentrated wih a lens, detonates gunpowder. In a 1903 treatise on solar energy, Charles Henry Pope wrote:In the i...

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/28/Sundial-Alarm-Clock-Goes-off-with-a-Bang/

Flintlock Alarm Clock

This mechanical marvel built in Austria sometime b... ...n Austria sometime between 1715 and 1725 is handy alarm clock. When the alarm is activiated, the clock rings a bell and trigger...

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/06/Flintlock-Alarm-Clock/