Archive for the 'Cuckoo Clocks' Category

10 31st, 2008

The Mechanical Cuckoo

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In 1629 a Bavarian nobleman named Philipp Hainhofer described a mechanical organ-like device with automated features, and a mechanical cuckoo bird owned by Prince Flector August von Sachsen.  Hainhofer’s book (where this description was from) contained words and pictures of how the device worked, and this became the first known appearance of the mechanical cuckoo.  Decades later, the first cuckoo clocks were conceived in a region of Germany called the Black Forest, where the mechanical cuckoo was made famous. 

 

Over the years, cuckoo clocks have become a part of various societies, and are still prized today for their traditional and Bavarian heritage.  In addition, there are contemporary versions of cuckoo clocks with avant-garde designs using geometric shapes, and bereft of the ornate carvings standard on the traditional clocks.


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05 21st, 2008

Cuckoo Clocks

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