The Buresh Immigration Clock Tower at the corner of Inspiration Place and 16th Avenue SW, playing its new features for the first time Friday afternoon, was transformed into an orloj after flood ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Some clocks just go “tick tock.” A few do astronomical things. By fall, the Clock Tower standing silently in Czech Village will sing and dance, and show the phases of the sun ...

That renovation included adding the first astronomical clock in North America - called an Orloj. It also added the twelve figurines - which represent immigrants who came to Cedar Rapids from ...

It's expected to reopen by December. City Hall spokesman Vit Hofman says the clock – installed on the tower in 1410 – will function until January when it'll be removed for restoration.

SPARTANBURG — Residents are split on plans for Morgan Square’s iconic clock tower. In response to a survey from The Post and Courier on the clock tower’s future, nearly half of all ...

Auctions A Towering 18th-Century Astronomical Clock, Made by a Clockmaker to King Louis XV, Could Fetch $850,000 at Auction The clock still works, even after two and a half centuries.

The International Astronomical Union voted Thursday encouraging space organizations across the globe to collaborate on a timekeeping standard for the moon, where one day lasts 29.5 Earth days.

This is an astronomical clock made by Song I-yeong, who was an astronomy professor in 1669 during the reign of King Hyeonjong of Joseon. The diameter of the clock is 40 centimeters (15.74 inches ...

In 2018, the iconic Orloj astronomical clock that has been the centerpiece of Prague’s Old Town Square for more than 600 years, was unveiled to the public after an extensive £2.1 million ($2.6 ...