It wasn't even the first time ball in New York.

This time balls did strike the walls, some going over the top, but no real damage was done.

The time ball is still dropped at 1pm on days when the station is open.

It was then used as a time ball tower.

This was followed by a time ball, a lighthouse and a telegraph office in later years.

Its design incorporates the use of a time ball.

The Times Square ball isn't quite a true time ball.

At the time of his death, time balls were in use on every inhabited continent.

Today there are over sixty time balls standing, though many of these are no longer operational.

The tower was damaged during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake and the operation of the time ball stopped.

Yet the Times Square ball is not the world's most important time ball - nor was it the first.

Every time Balls opens his mouth - hard core lefties will be delerious.

Perhaps his most noticeable addition was the 1833 installation of the time ball on the roof of the Observatory.

The group's only release was a single that did not come out until September 1971, by which time Balls had ceased to exist.

The clock was wired up to control the drop of a time ball on Nelson's Monument.

On top of the tower is a time ball, a large ball which was raised and lowered to mark the time.

Sabrina made a time ball, which Salem swallowed and caused the time period to be the 1960s.

See: Time ball, an early form of Time signal.

There are two telescope domes on octagonal bases and a four story tower for the time ball.

A time ball is an obsolete time signalling device.

Every day at 1pm the red time ball at the top of the Royal Observatory continues to drop as has done since 1833.

In 2009, as part of the restoration of the monument, the time ball was removed, and the mechanism repaired.

The Trust hoped to salvage the time ball mechanism and were investigating whether reconstruction was a viable option.

Time ball stations set their clocks according to transit observations of the positions of the sun and stars.

In 1854 the time ball was installed on Nelson's Monument next to the observatory and visible from the port.