Category Archives: Summer 2005 Trip

Pretty interesting exhibit. Watches weren’t popular until officers in World War I wore them. Tower clocks, as seen above, were first desinged to ring bells and not show the time. This is actually how the word clock came about. Its a derivative of the Middle English word ‘clok’, which was abother word for bell.

Currerently under restoration in the Conservation Lab, where you can actually watch them working on the flag. There’s more information available at http://americanhistory.si.edu/ssb. I’m not sure what’s on there but if its anything like the information they have here, its pretty interesting.