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Sign: Cambridge - Corpus Clock


Address:
58 Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RH, UK
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On the sign:
The Corpus Clock

designed by
John C Taylor
and inaugurated in 2008
by Stephen Hawking
is exact every fifth minute
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The clock also known as the "grasshopper clock" is a clock without numbers or hands, it shows the time by blue LED lights arranged in 3 circles (hours, minutes, seconds). Above the clock is a sculpture in the shape of a locust, which actually houses the mechanism of the clock’s pendulum (escapement).
The clock was introduced in 2008 by physicist Stephen Hawking.

The clock was taken that day Click for a larger image

Under the clock is an inscription from the First Epistle of John:
MUNDUS TRANSIT ET CONCUPISCENTIA EIUS
the world passeth away, and the lust thereof
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