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The Clock of Flowing Time (german: Uhr der fließenden Zeit) is a 13 meter high
Official web page
(archived in January 2019)
colored liquid
video Individual clocks Water clocks Buildings and structures in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Clocks in Germany 1982 establishments in Germany {{time-stub
The Clock of Flowing Time (german: Uhr der fließenden Zeit) is a 13 meter high water clock
A water clock or clepsydra (; ; ) is a timepiece by which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel, and where the amount is then measured.
Water clocks are one of the oldest time- ...
extending over three floors in the Berlin Europa-Center. The clock was designed by the French artist Bernard Gitton and set up in 1982.
The water clock displays the time by filling glass spheres with brightly colored liquid, in a cycle that repeats every 12 hours. The whole system is controlled by a pendulum
A pendulum is a weight suspended from a wikt:pivot, pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, Mechanical equilibrium, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that ...
swinging in the lower half of the clock.
References
External links
*Official web page
(archived in January 2019)
colored liquid
video Individual clocks Water clocks Buildings and structures in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Clocks in Germany 1982 establishments in Germany {{time-stub