Devonshire Dome Clock, Buxton
A look at the clock on the old Devonshire Royal Hospital in Buxton, Derbyshire.
The Devonshire Royal Hospital building (now popularly known as the Devonshire Dome) is a Grade II* listed 18th-century former stable block in Buxton, Derbyshire. It was built by John Carr of York and extended by architect Robert Rippon Duke who added what was then the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft). It is now the site of the Devonshire campus of the University of Derby.
Built between 1780 and 1789, the original building was designed by John Carr of York for William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. Octagonal in shape, it housed up to 110 horses and the servants of the guests of the Crescent Hotel, built in combination as part of the plan to promote Buxton as a spa town.
In 1859, the Buxton Bath Charity had persuaded the Duke of Devonshire to allow part of the building -- by then accommodating nothing like the 110 horses for which it was designed -- to be converted to a charity hospital for the use of the 'sick poor' coming in for treatment from the 'Cottonopolis' of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Devonshire estate architect, Henry Currey, architect for St Thomas's Hospital in London, converted two thirds of the building into a hospital.
In 1881, the Buxton Bath Charity trustees under their chairman Dr William Henry Robertson, persuaded William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire to give them the use of the whole building in exchange for providing new stables elsewhere in the town. Local architect Robert Rippon Duke was commissioned to design a 300-bed hospital to rival Bath and Harrogate for charity medical provision. The Cotton Districts Convalescent fund put up £25,000 for the conversion. The steel structure was clad in slate, and proposed to be supported by 22 curved steel arms. However, during construction the Tay Bridge disaster occurred on 28 December 1879, and so the number of arms was revised upwards. Railway engineer Mr Footner advised that the designers of the Tay Rail Bridge had not taken into account the stresses of lateral wind and storms.
Further changes were undertaken, with the clock tower and lodge completed in 1882, surgical wards in 1897, spa baths in 1913, and the dining room and kitchens in 1921. The building became known as the Devonshire Royal Hospital in 1934.
The Devonshire Royal was the last of the eight hydropathic hospitals in England to close when it closed in 2000.
On 31 January 2001, the University of Derby acquired the Devonshire Royal Hospital. The University received £4.7m Heritage Lottery Fund backing for the restoration and redevelopment project.
I am not sure who the maker of the clock was but it is quarter chiming as heard in this video.
The following are links to videos of other clocks I have visited:
LONDON BIG BEN
NOTTINGHAM COUNCIL HOUSE
KIDSGROVE VICTORIA HALL
MANCHESTER TOWN HALL
ECCLES TOWN HALL
HYDE TOWN HALL
DUKINFIELD TOWN HALL
STALYBRIDGE CIVIC HALL
ROCHDALE TOWN HALL
BOLTON TOWN HALL
CHORLEY TOWN HALL
DARWEN TOWN AND MARKET HALL
GREAT HARWOOD MERCER MEMORIAL
BURNLEY TOWN HALL
COLNE TOWN HALL
LANCASTER TOWN HALL
KENDAL TOWN HALL
EARLESTOWN TOWN HALL
LIVERPOOL MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
LIVERPOOL VICTORIA BUILDING
BIRKENHEAD TOWN HALL
SOUTHPORT TOWN HALL
BUXTON TOWN HALL
MARSDEN MECHANICS HALL
LINDLEY CLOCK TOWER
HALIFAX TOWN HALL
BRADFORD CITY HALL
CLECKHEATON TOWN HALL
BATLEY LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
LEEDS TOWN HALL
LEEDS THORNTON'S ARCADE
LEEDS GRAND ARCADE
HULL GUILDHALL
Someone Needs Help! 1970
This film consists of clips from an 8mm film made by some of the Ambulance staff at the WRCAS depot at Honley near Huddersfield in 1970. The clips were put together by the Yorkshire Film Archive who are preserving the original 8mm and have transferred this to digital. Hopefully, the full version will be available soon. I am currently working along with some of the 'lads' I used to work with on the Service to try and add a soundtrack consisting of comments from them as they remember their time with the WRCAS and, particularly, making this film. The whole film is around 45 minutes and, when completed originally, was used as a training film for the Service in training new recruits. Ironically, some years later, it was used at the training school in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, as how NOT to treat burns (treatment for lots of things change over time as new treatments evolve.)
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Radio-frequency identification | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:06 1 History
00:06:30 2 Design
00:06:39 2.1 Tags
00:09:39 2.2 Readers
00:11:17 2.3 Frequencies
00:11:26 2.4 Signaling
00:14:52 2.5 Bulk reading
00:17:21 2.6 Miniaturization
00:18:40 3 Uses
00:21:30 3.1 Commerce
00:22:16 3.1.1 Retail
00:23:23 3.1.2 Access control
00:24:02 3.1.3 Advertising
00:24:53 3.1.4 Promotion tracking
00:25:19 3.2 Transportation and logistics
00:26:50 3.2.1 Hose stations and conveyance of fluids
00:27:38 3.2.2 Track & Trace test vehicles and prototype parts
00:27:54 3.3 Infrastructure management and protection
00:28:21 3.4 Passports
00:31:46 3.5 Transportation payments
00:32:42 3.6 Animal identification
00:34:01 3.7 Human implantation
00:36:21 3.8 Institutions
00:36:30 3.8.1 Hospitals and healthcare
00:40:25 3.8.2 Libraries
00:44:39 3.8.3 Museums
00:45:43 3.8.4 Schools and universities
00:47:05 3.9 Sports
00:51:01 3.10 Complement to barcode
00:53:25 3.11 Waste management
00:54:22 3.12 Telemetry
00:55:25 4 Regulation and standardization
01:03:10 4.1 EPC Gen2
01:05:56 5 Problems and concerns
01:06:06 5.1 Data flooding
01:07:07 5.2 Global standardization
01:07:46 5.3 Security concerns
01:10:39 5.4 Health
01:10:53 5.5 Exploitation
01:11:22 5.6 Passports
01:12:11 5.7 Shielding
01:14:29 6 Controversies
01:14:38 6.1 Privacy
01:20:16 6.2 Government control
01:21:41 6.3 Deliberate destruction in clothing and other items
01:23:33 7 Reliability
01:23:42 7.1 Tag reliability
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. The tags contain electronically stored information. Passive tags collect energy from a nearby RFID reader's interrogating radio waves. Active tags have a local power source (such as a battery) and may operate hundreds of meters from the RFID reader. Unlike a barcode, the tag need not be within the line of sight of the reader, so it may be embedded in the tracked object. RFID is one method of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC).RFID tags are used in many industries. For example, an RFID tag attached to an automobile during production can be used to track its progress through the assembly line; RFID-tagged pharmaceuticals can be tracked through warehouses; and implanting RFID microchips in livestock and pets enables positive identification of animals.
Since RFID tags can be attached to cash, clothing, and possessions, or implanted in animals and people, the possibility of reading personally-linked information without consent has raised serious privacy concerns. These concerns resulted in standard specifications development addressing privacy and security issues. ISO/IEC 18000 and ISO/IEC 29167 use on-chip cryptography methods for untraceability, tag and reader authentication, and over-the-air privacy. ISO/IEC 20248 specifies a digital signature data structure for RFID and barcodes providing data, source and read method authenticity. This work is done within ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques. Tags can also be used in shops to expedite checkout, and to prevent theft by customers and employees.
In 2014, the world RFID market was worth US$8.89 billion, up from US$7.77 billion in 2013 and US$6.96 billion in 2012. This figure includes tags, readers, and software/services for RFID cards, labels, fobs, and all other form factors. The market value is expected to rise to US$18.68 billion by 2026.