This water clock, like the whole Rococo palace, had been born of a friendship between the Manchu emperor Qianlong and Giuseppe Castiglione, a Milanese Jesuit whom he commissioned to design it in 1747.
Workers have been skimming oily water around the clock near Vicksburg, Miss.
Various Y2K experts predict that some of the nation's water supplies will fail when the clock strikes midnight because of computer problems, but the water utility industry strongly disagrees.
The pinch will be on farmers like Johnny Howell who run water to plants around the clock, without much hope of turning a profit.
She said teams had been working round the clock to repair the water pipe and to maintain supplies.
Richard Pim built the clock in Westonbury Mill Water Gardens, near Leominster, Herefordshire - his home which he opens to the public.
Its street level windows have been boarded-up, the glass on the clock vandalised and metal theft has allowed rain water to get in, the Victorian Society said.
What about our poorer and distant neighbors, the folk elsewhere in Africa and India, for example, scouring nearly around the clock for the means of basic survival such as finding relative safety, drinkable water, and food of any kind that we, with our self-induced complicated lives, take for granted as a basic given?
We know that the clock mechanism soon broke down, and it was up to the eunuchs to pump water manually every time the emperor was passing in front of the statues.
In my case, I stuck with an alarm clock app that offers soothing wake-up calls and nerdy charting features that make for interesting water-cooler talk "My REM was so on last night!"
Round the clock, rescuers dropped metal cylinders, dubbed "carrier pigeons, " down the boreholes taking food, water, clothes and letters to the miners.
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