![]() ![]() "We're going to amend that, I guess," company spokesman John Bernaden said sadly. 2nd St., you can pick up a fact sheet about the world-record clock. This all came as a surprise to the folks at Rockwell. If time zones changed vertically, it could very well be a different time on the clock and on the ground. The Allen-Bradley (now Rockwell Automation) tower is 281 feet tall the Mecca tower with a spire atop is 1,970 feet, making it the second-tallest building in the world and part of a complex of seven towers. Their clocks, which started operating this month in time for Ramadan, are by most accounts about 140 feet in diameter. ![]() Mecca Royal Clock Hotel Tower, which overlooks Mecca's Grand Mosque, the holiest site in Islam and a destination for millions of Muslims. Saudi Arabia cleaned our clock with its Abraj Al Bait Towers, a.k.a. A much bigger four-sided clock just went up in Mecca, and I don't mean the former Milwaukee Arena version of MECCA. London's punier Big Ben has been eating our dust all these years.īut, alas, our affectionately nicknamed Polish moon has been eclipsed. For nearly half a century, Milwaukee has boasted the world's largest four-sided clock high up on the Allen-Bradley tower.Įven the Guinness World Records book and Wikipedia say so. ![]()
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