The Corpus Clock
Golden clock with no hands, ridden by a giant time-eating grasshopper that devours each minute.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Corpus Clock on Trumpington Street in Cambridge is about the people who made it: a kettle-thermostat inventor who spent his own fortune on it, and the engineers, sculptors and jewellers he hired. It follows the problem they met in the workshop when an old clockmaker's mechanism was scaled up far beyond anything tried before. Stand on the pavement facing the gold disc, close enough to watch the creature's jaw.
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