Transcript FIRST TALKING CLOCKS

“CLOCKS
AND
WATCHES
THAT TALK?”
“WHY NOT.”
“SOUNDING THE TIME”
• Since the earliest mechanical clock,
sound has been an accompaniment
to sight. Bells, chimes, cuckoos,
gongs, trumpets, etc. announce the
hour.
• Ship’s bells, town crier, call to prayer,
mid-day cannon, church bells, etc.
FIRST TALKING
CLOCKS AND WATCHES
• A French recording from 1860 is the oldest
known recorded human voice. It could not
be played back.
• Thomas Edison, in 1877,recorded, and
played back, “Mary had a little lamb”.
• In 1878, the first clock spoke the time.
• In 1895, the first watch spoke the time.
• 1878. Just months after Edison's invention of the tin
foil recorder, inventor Frank Lambert applied Edison's
technology to the development of an experimental
talking clock using a lead cylinder.
1895 - Sivan of Geneva
creates the first miniature
application of Edison’s
phonograph in a talking
pocket watch.
The hard rubber disc has 48 grooves
corresponding to the twelve hours and
thirty six quarters. A press of the button
starts the disc rotating and the stylus
transfers the vibration from the disc to
the membrane on the rear of the case
to create the sound !
• 1911 - Bernhard Hiller of Berlin creates a viable talking
clock.
• 14 kgs.
• The 48 recordings (12 hours, 36 quarters) were on 48
tracks of a celluloid ribbon 39 inches long.
• It was played by a sapphire reproducer similar to disc
machines, such as Pathe.
• Major fault was the celluloid strip on which the time is
recorded.
Spoken Time Services
• 1933 - First speaking-clock telephone service,
invented by Ernest Esclangon, was launched in
Paris. On the first day 140,000 phone calls were
received.
• 1936 - London’s “Girl with the Golden Voice” went
on line. Auto-shut off.
• 1954 - Melbourne & Sydney went on line with British
made mechanical systems.
• 1990 – Digital systems introduced
• 2010 - Dial 1194 for the spoken time.
Mechanical speaking clock
Melbourne & Sydney 1954
Assmann digital speaking clock
1990
AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF PEACE !
• 1968 - Mattel Corp create a portable talking
clock, the “Mattel-a-Time”, a teaching aid.
• Transistors and printed circuits leads to the
development of miniature circuits for sound
recording and playback.
• “What time is it ?” “What time will it be in 1
hour?” etc.
Teaching Clocks
“BUILD YOUR OWN” KIT
THE NOVELTY ERA – 1970’S
• An entirely new genre of talking clock
emerges.
• Animated characters, popular carton
characters, super heroes.
• More than 20 languages, some clocks
having more than 5 languages available.
Cartoon "People"
Heroes and Super Heroes
Females Who Never Lived
Kingdom of Animals
The Most Famous Mouse
Trains and Automobiles
Religious and Mystical
Sports
Rockets and Robots
Click
Clocks on the Wall
Advertising Clocks
Miscellaneous
THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT.
• Further miniaturisation and silicon chip
integrated circuit (IC) technology
increases the functions
• All talk, no display.
• Developed for the visually impaired.
MULTIFUNCTION.
FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
NO DISPLAY
MINIATURISATION
TALKING WATCHES
MINIATURISATION
PENS, PEDOMETERS, KEY CHAINS, ETC.
2010 – LATEST TECHNOLOGY
• Mini Talking Clock Digital Video Recorder
with Remote Control Motion Activated,
Hidden Pinhole Colour Camera
TALKING
ATOMIC
CLOCK
• Atomic watches and clocks include a tiny antenna and
receiver inside that receives a radio signal beamed out by
various land based transmitters.
• There are no atomic time broadcasts in Australia. You may
pick up a signal from Japan in North Australia.
• Accuracy to about one second in 20 million years,
(providing the battery doesn’t go flat)
TALKING
ATOMIC
CLOCK
A sleek, modern silver talking clock
with the most up-to-date functions as
well as snooze.
Press the button on the top or on the
small remote to hear the time, the
date or the indoor temperature.
Very pleasant female voice.
Remote has a 7.5 metre range (note:
remote is very small).
Tower is 190mm H x 75mm W x 38mm D.
Base is 100mm W x 60mm D.
TALKING
ATOMIC
WATCH
White face with
black numbers
Atomic function
assures
accurate time
ON-LINE TALKING CLOCKS
• Internet talking clock.
• GPS talking clock – GPS uses 24
satellites each with 4 atomic master
clocks.(Note: 1 billionth of a second error = 305 mm error in a GPS )
• In your mobile phone!
MOBILE PHONE
Alarm Weather Talking
Time Clock for iPhone
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Sound sensitive display control
Wake up to your favorites music
Talking weather forecast and talking time
Real-time detailed local area weather and talking time.
Automatically finds your local weather anywhere in the world
Nightstand as a clock and wake you up with your favorites music
Real-time local area weather with temperature, wind, pressure, humidity
Shake to turn ON/OFF the flashlight Sound controller
Talking time every hour or on-demand by touch the screen.
Alarm Sound ON/OFF
Week calendar repeat alarm on any day of the weekday or everyday Snooze mode
Alarm indicator on main screen LCD style display with almost all kinds of colors.
Customisable date format: With or without am/pm, second, day, date, with or without
backlight support both portrait and wide landscape modes.
12-hour/24-hour time format Digital/Analogue display.
THE LANGUAGE OF TIME
• Digital : Eight fifty five = Analogue : Five to nine
• 12 hour : 8:55 am =
24 hour : 08:55
• 12 hour : 8:55 pm =
24 hour : 20:55
• Talking clocks use digital time expression but
usually a 12 or 24 hour format can be selected.