Gears & Wheels
Originally a challenge topic for the North Bethesda Camera Club, I decided to create a collection involving gears and wheels. The initial collection consists of images of the gear system for the 24-foot clocks of the "Bromo Tower" in downtown Baltimore, and wheels and gears from The Baltimore Fire Museum and The Baltimore Streetcar Museum.
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Worm Gear in the Clockworks of Baltimore's Bromo Seltzer Tower
The was part of the original rewind system that hoists the weights of the gravity drive to the top of the apparatus 3 times a day. An electric motor is now used for that purpose. That is the only electrical component of the clock.
