Mad about the '60s
Westclox is a past and current brand of such timepieces, including the Big Ben. Some of today's Big Ben alarm clocks evoke the decades even before Mad Men, the 1930s and '40s. • Ashtrays. Don pitches Lucky Strikes to a generation of heavy smokers....
www.nwaonline.com
April 11, 2015
For some of us, the old-school landline phone habit dies hard
It is a gorgeous piece of industrial design by the American genius Henry Dreyfuss, who also created the streamline modern locomotive for the 20th Century Limited passenger train and the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock, among many other icons. And it works ...
www.dallasnews.com
April 7, 2015
Sheridan Man Pleads Not Guilty To Torching County Attorney's Office
He built the device with batteries, black powder, a rocket motor, a piece of pipe, wire, electrical tape, a Westclox brand Style 8 Baby Ben mechanical alarm clock, and other materials, according to the criminal complaint. Investigators spoke with the a ...
k2radio.com
April 6, 2015
A Look at the Redesigned Cooper Hewitt
“Beautiful Users,” a temporary exhibition dedicated to the industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, the man behind the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock and the Princess phone, included a tall screen meant to illustrate some of the ideas behind ergonomics. You ...
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2014
Westclox fire: 'Dumb prank' that changed history
They'd pre-planned a Westclox fire so many times that all in command knew not to send anybody inside. Saving the flammable detritus inside wasn't worth the risk to life and limb. The standing orders were to contain the blaze and protect any nearby homes....
newstrib.com
January 1, 2015
The Disappearing And Controversial Culture Of Midwestern Hunters, Captured ...
Every November in Wisconsin, hundreds of thousands of hunters—about 10% of the state's total population—descend on local woods in search of deer. In a new book called Blaze Orange, photographer Travis Dewitz captures what whitetail hunting season ...
www.fastcoexist.com
September 10, 2014
First Bible on the moon still sparks controversy
“The thing was powered by and old Westclox™ alarm clock -- the cheapest I could buy -- and had an old Angus camera lens on it,” he said. “But it took great satellite pictures.” The orbiting coordinates were provided by his friend and fellow space ...
www.yourhoustonnews.com
July 25, 2014
All three of these websites can also be found on my Pinterest board-- Vintage and Antique Resources (Group Board) . I've been building this board for about a year now, and so far, I have 188 pins--different sites and articles that contain useful... If any fellow antiquers out there would like to join this group board, I'd be happy to send you my guidelines and add you to the board. The Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website , maintained by a fellow named Bill Lindsey, contains an enormous amount of information about every single type of bottle you can think of. I selected Medicinal Bottles because it's a... I love the feel of old things in my hands, and I love to fix them up and give them new life. When a reader decides to make a purchase through one of my affiliate links, I receive varying percentages of those purchases from these companies. These funds support my blog and make it possible for me to spend more time doing what I love--blogging.
The morning time can be a pleasant, rejuvenated time of day for some, but for those night owls out there, the sound of an alarm penetrating their peaceful sleep cycle can be dreadful. In her article, Why The Snooze Button Is Ruining Your Sleep , author Sophia Breene explained that the first alarm clock was constructed in 1787 by a New Hampshire native named Levi Hutchins, set to ring every morning at 4:00 a. m. (yikes) A few... One survey found that more than a third of Americans hit the snooze button three or more times daily, and more than half of people ages 25 to 34 press snooze daily. But this subconscious habit may be sabotaging your daily energy levels, in fact, an alarm clock all together may not be a good idea. During a sleeping cycle, the body shifts into different brain level states, the most crucial being the REM state. Before our bodies awaken, the brain sends out hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline which help us to shift from the REM state to a lighter state of sleep. When we hit our snooze button multiple times, particularly if we haven’t had enough sleep, we are actually depriving our bodies of the more crucial type of sleep, REM.
The Big Ben Chime Alarm movement uses some of the same time parts as the Baby Ben movement:. Most Westclox pivots are polished, hard steel wire. The third through fifth (escape) wheel and pallet pivots are made this way, but they may wear their pivot holes enough to need bushings. Westclox center wheel arbors are made of turned soft steel wire, and are not finished very well. They may cause bad wear to the front center wheel pivot hole, requiring a bushing. The back center pivot can wear, but unless the wear is super-bad, I prefer not to install a bushing, as a bushing may pop out when removing the time set knob. Typically, I do the following pivot work to a Chime Alarm movement:. Smooth the center arbor pivots with a pivot file, then polish them. Bush one or both time third wheel pivot holes. Bush the time fifth (escape wheel) pivot holes. Bush the pallet pivot holes (this helps the clock run a lot better, as it reduces power-losing side-to-side motion of the pallet arbor. Center Wheel front pivot: #26 bushing, shorten in the lathe to be just slightly longer than the plate thickness, then insert and rivet flush with the front and back of the plate. 5mm, bushing #5. T5 and pallet pivots: pivot diameter.
Mad about the '60s
Westclox ad, midcentury • Alarm clock. The midcentury go-getter stepped smartly on time to his first meeting of the day thanks to an actual alarm clock. He made sure to wind it the night before. Today's cellphone does the same job with a beep ...
www.nwaonline.com
April 10, 2015
For some of us, the old-school landline phone habit dies hard
It is a gorgeous piece of industrial design by the American genius Henry Dreyfuss, who also created the streamline modern locomotive for the 20th Century Limited passenger train and the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock, among many other icons. And it works ...
www.dallasnews.com
April 6, 2015
Sheridan Man Pleads Not Guilty To Torching County Attorney’s Office
He built the device with batteries, black powder, a rocket motor, a piece of pipe, wire, electrical tape, a Westclox brand Style 8 Baby Ben mechanical alarm clock, and other materials, according to the criminal complaint. Investigators spoke with the a ...
k2radio.com
April 6, 2015
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