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Cuckoo clock in culture
The cuckoo clock, more than any other kind of timepiece, has often featured in literature, music, cinema, television, etc., in the Western culture, as a metaphor or allegory of innocence, childhood, old age, past, fun, mental disorder, etc. It has apparently been viewed more as a symbol or a toy -a folksy musical apparatus with animated figures- fascinating and a bit mysterious rather than as a serious timekeeper.〔Richard Mühe & Beatrice Techen, ''Beha Clocks In the Black Forest Manner''. In: NAWCC Bulletin, December 2001: p. 739.〕
Although the cuckoo clock functions as a symbol of Switzerland and Swissness, in fact it only has a slim connection with that country in terms of production. Its real home is the Black Forest of Germany.
== Science and technology ==
Inside Sierra Diablo mountains (Texas), is being built the monumental 10,000 Year Clock based upon an idea of Daniel Hillis who in 1995〔(The Clock in the Mountain. The Technium. )〕 expressed as follows: ''"I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years."''〔(The 10.000 Year Clock official website. )〕 Funded by Jeff Bezos,〔(Dylan Tweney, How to Make a Clock Run for 10.000 Years. Wired.com. )〕 it is designed to run for ten millennia with minimal maintenance and interruption.〔(The Long Now Foundation website. )〕
The Discovey Channel TV series Big!, consisted of a team of craftspeople, in welding and metal construction, manufacturing the world's biggest items scaled up to proportions for the sake of setting world records, the devices had to function to qualify. One of the enlarged objects was a cuckoo clock in the episode number 9, although the Guinness World Record was not finally achieved.
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