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Corpus Clock & Chronophage, Cambridge

Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England | The new clock at Corpus Christi with King's reflected.

The Corpus Clock, Cambridge was designed by Dr John Taylor, an horologist and former student at Corpus. The face is plated with 24 carat gold and it is said to have cost a million pounds to make. It is partly a tribute to John Harrison, an 18th century English clockmaker who solved the problem of longitude. He also invented the 'grasshopper escapement' (part of a clock mechanism), hence the freaky grasshopper thing which moves with every second and 'eats' the time as it passes. 'Chronophage' means 'time-eater'. The clock was unveiled by Professor Stephen Hawking on 19th September 2008.

Here's Stephen Hawking about to unveil it www.flickr.com/photos/27466406@N00/2886233692
And here it is just after being revealed www.flickr.com/photos/27466406@N00/2886243060