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HALL LANTERN [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clocks, Watches and Bells
DEF

A 17th-century bracket clock worked by weights and surmounted by a bell in a frame.

OBS

Originally called "house clocks" or "great chamber clocks, "lantern clocks were renamed as such during the mid-nineteenth century. As their original name suggests, they were designed as simple, functional timepieces, used to regulate the daily routine and activities of the household in which they hung. Their weight-driven movements were stout, reliable, comparatively cheap and were more accurate than contemporary spring clocks... Domestic inventories of the period show that lantern clocks were usually hung in a hall or on a staircase, where sufficient space existed beneath for the drop of their weights and where the sound of their bell or alarm could reverberate through the house.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Horlogerie et sonnerie
Key term(s)
  • horloge-lanterne

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Elevators

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ascenseurs et monte-charge
OBS

Ascenseurs et monte-charge [...] Signalisation [...] sur les paliers [...] Lanterne de direction.

OBS

Indicateur de position. Dispositif qui indique la position de la cabine d'ascenseur dans le puits. Il s'appelle indicateur de position en couloir s'il est placé à un palier ou indicateur de position en cabine s'il est placé dans une cabine.

Spanish

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