Bill's Clockworks Giftly

Bill has had a lifelong interest in clocks. At age eight found a Waterbury octagon lever wall clock, ca. 1880, in his attic. Several years later he repaired it. At age 13 he received a 400 day clock for Christmas, and replaced the suspension spring. At age 14 Bill became interested in Westclox Baby Ben alarm clocks and began to collect, repair and gather data about them. He later added Big Bens to the collection. In high school, Bill bought a 1940's floor standing radio. He learned how vacuum tube electronic circuits work, and started to repair radios and TVs. He studied electronics for two years in high school, and then studied electrical engineering at Michigan Technological University. In 2000, Bill created the ClockHistory.com web site. In 2001 he did his first design with MySql and PHP. In 2003, he used PHP and MySQL to create an online catalog of Hermle clocks. He is designing an online Westclox history database, using PostgreSQL.