Next time you're in Baltimore, be sure to visit the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower where you can see its gravity-driven pendulum clock. It's a beautiful mechanism with a very specific claim to fame: "The clockworks is the largest four dial gravity driven non-chiming clock in the world with the magnificent 24ft dials."

https://imgur.com/a/PjAv85o

https://www.bromoseltzertower.com/about/virtual-tour

(The elevator motors are also up there so there's a lot going on.)

Send it to Big Clive with a felt pen enclosed.

Such a pleasant surprise to wake up and see my hometown at the top of hackernews!

One of the factors for the location I bought my house was the church bell that would ring on the hour from 8am to 9pm. The neighbors had the curch turn it off. :(

Maybe you could get this one to do 9am, noon, 3pm, 6pm weekdays, so you get the sound, but not the annoyance?

There's a Reddit user who posts in a car repair subreddit about his work repairing bell-tower equipment. Very cool.

https://www.reddit.com/user/dingdongbellguy/

If you like old buildings, clock and bell mechanisms, or rigging, there's a fascinating series of bell tower repair videos on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@DingDongitsthebellguy

He also posts on reddit under dingdongbellguy

i wish i could fix The Sun clock on Broadway and Chambers

it's literally kittycorner from City Hall, and hasn't been running for a while...

i'd do it for free if i knew who to even bother about getting up into it

> Written on 11th April

> I had hoped we could do a "test" by letting the clock chime thirteen

What in the Orwell

This sounds like such a fun project, especially to share with like minded friends.

Ahh this made me like the internet today, thank you