T.K. Sidey’s Clock Pendulum | |
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Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day | |
Origin |
T.K. Sidey |
Type |
Clock Pendulum |
Effects |
Slows time |
Activation |
Proximity twice a day |
Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
Section |
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Aisle |
356-9365 |
Shelf |
4492-639-1890 |
Date of Collection |
1955 |
[Source] |
Origin[]
Sir Thomas Kay Sidey (1863 - 1933) was a New Zealand politician from the Otago region, remembered for his successful advocacy of daylight savings time. By the time Sidey was in his fifties he was Attorney-General and the Minister of Justice in the United government. Sidey pout forward a private member's bill stating that clocks should be changed forward an hour in the summer every year starting in 1909. In 1926 it was passed in the House of Representatives but rejected by the Legislative Council, however the next year it passed
Effects[]
For an hour a day, twice a day it slows movement around it for an hour.
Collection[]
Occurs at both 3am and 3pm, a proximity of a twenty foot radius