Clock tower

On August 1, 1966, former marine sharpshooter Charles Whitman rode the elevator to the top of the clock tower at the University of Texas with a high-powered sniper rifle and other deadly assault weapons and opened fire on the civilians below him. He held the University of Texas campus hostage for 96 minutes. Tower (2016), a documentary by Keith Maitland, sheds light on America’s first modern gun massacre. The documentary retells this story through archival footage of the event, animations, and interviews

the Neolithic period in Ancient Israel is the Jericho Tower. At a time first attempting permanent village settlements, building a monumental tower was not done on a whim. The tower represents the first monumental building structure in the Levant, but what was it built for? This question has been on the minds of archaeologists for years. The three main theories behind the tower are for defensive purposes, flood prevention, and in clock tower function. Neolithic society had just begun forming agricultural

For this project our group was tasked with designing a tower under the parameters of a 40 cm height minimum and 10 x 10 cm tower base minimum using bass wood and wood glue. The overall aim was ultimately to design a tower with the greatest mass-to-weight ratio. The following consists of the procedures, results, and conclusions of our designing, constructing, and testing stages. After the tower was completed the mass of the structure was calculated to be at around 29.2 g (0.06437498 lbs). Through

Nekozawa would cast a creepy shadow over the window where Team B was hiding out, next to the staircase. Then, they would throw a skull down the stairs, followed by Tamaki walking down dressed as the Clock Tower Witch. The Clock Tower Witch was an urban legend where a girl dressed as a witch fell from the clock tower on Halloween a while ago. Supposedly, anyone who sees her ghost on Halloween was supposed to be cursed. That would surely send them all running down one of the two hallways. On one end, Mori

“This is crazy!” I screamed over the loud noise of people crowded down below us. We continued floating up in aw, nearing the top of the clock tower. “Let’s try landing on the clock hand” Kat suggested. We steered in that direction to the best of our ability and finally touched down. I heard the same screams we heard over the phone coming through the glass. “Help...help…” “We need to break through!” I said

of course, would only function when there was sunlight, and they could not be used at night or on a cloudy day. To compensate for these shortcomings, the water clock was invented. Around 325 BC, water clocks began to be used by the Greeks, who called the device the clepsydra (‘water thief’). How does it work? In an outflow water clock, the inside of a container is marked with lines of measurement. Water leaks out of the container at a steady pace and observers tell time by measuring how much

we can utter these annoying words is because of the clock. Without the clock we wouldn't know what time it is, and because of the busy schedule held by pretty much everyone, our lives would be in shambles. So I say thank you to the Chinese for inventing such a magnificent thing, even if one of the earliest models was 30 feet high. The first mechanical clock was made in 723 A.D. by a monk and mathematician I-Hsing. It was an astronomical clock and he called it the "Water Driven Spherical Birds-Eye-View

It was a hot afternoon in the summer of 1896 when the Stranger in Black Denim rode his horse toward the godforsaken town on the backside of the Oklahoma Territory. Stopping on the outskirts of town, he heard the windmill’s broken vane rhythmically click-clacking with each turn in the steady west wind. The dry-scraping sound of its pump echoed the plight of the town: too little rain, not enough water. Many of the storefronts were boarded up, and few people were walking its dusty streets. Surviving

The Tick in the Clock New technology often begins with the clear intention of solving an ongoing problem or satisfying a societal need. Many times, this new piece of technology is simple, such as the toothpick. Other times, a new technology can be a thing of great complexity, such as a computer hard drive or Facebook. One piece of technology in particular has changed the way human society has functioned over the past few centuries. Everyone strives to keep track of time, as more and more technologies

"Hey wake up! Get ready and meet me downstairs for breakfast! I got to leave so hurry up!" My mom said. I looked around with my vision still blurry from awakening I saw the clock. I saw 5:45 am on the clock. I hate mornings! I woke up and rustled all my things together and jetted down stairs. I see my mom across the room eating her favorite cereal, Lucky Charms. I slugged around the kitchen still half-awake trying to find a bowl, cereal, and milk. Then I heard a whistle and realized she had my breakfast