One version of using the resonance: The Amityville clock from the movie "Amityville: It's about time"

One version of using the resonance: The Amityville clock from the movie "Amityville: It's about time"


The system is the modified gramophone.

One of the most well-known thing in horror movies history is the clock what is introduced in the movies "Amityville". That kind of clock is possible to make. The idea of this system is that it must set on the edge of the fireplace. The base of the system is resonance, and the concrete is a very good conductor of the sound, what would conduct to the chimney.

The chimney is normally made by using concrete and that would make it possible that the resonance is allowed to conduct to the entire house. But if the resonance would be conducted to the tube, that thing can be heard even the entire skyscraper. The thing that the creator of that thing must have is the voice, which is recorded to the vinyl record.

The recording of the voice before the electronic equipment happened by the gramophone record, what was made by using the mud, where the voice is recorded by using the stylus and diaphragm. Then the mud would be hardened, and it can use as casting the iron on it. The form of this kind of physical record could be the cylinder.

The idea of the system is just making the gramophone, which will conduct the resonance with the structures of the house.

So then the clock can be equipped with the magnet, what can be the electric or combination with electric magnet and germanium, what mission is to pull this clock to the place of the iron. The machinery of the clock would be equipped with the electric generators, which are loading small capacitors.

When the level of the electricity is high enough, the magnetic switch will close the electric circuit. The thing is that the clock will put the small nail in the layer, and then it would start to knock it like the old gramophone.

This was the mechanic version. But there is a possibility to make a similar clock by using the resonance plate. In this version, the metallic stylus is scratching the metal layer, which would turn the resonance to the entire house. The use of the iron as the transmitter would be more effective than conducting resonance straight to concrete. The thing is that the metal would conduct the vibrations more effectively than the concrete.

Only problems with this thing are what if the people would put that thing on the wooden platform. The is kind of layer would not conduct the vibration, but the thing is that the vibrating stick or drill blade must not very thick. The normal metal wire, what is machined to the form of a drill blade is enough for creating the resonance to the structure.

Image from movie

Amityville: It's about time