Here are some excellent websites dealing with Gent's Clocks and Clock Systems. Rick's website deals with the master clocks themselves with lots of very useful and practical information for carers and collectors:
Gents' Pul-syn-etic clock
And here is the website of an acknowledged Gents' collector, expert, master restorer and a superb illustrator. A huge range of items produced by Gents related to timekeeping and their impulse clock systems are beautifully displayed. Others can only marvel at the skills and encyclopaedic knowledge of this remarkable horologist.
http://pulsynetic.eu/
Here's another superb website dealing with a wide variety of master clocks.
Electric Master Clocks
Here's a comprehensive links page on an interesting website:
http://www.remmepark.com/manchesterclockworks/links/links.html
Here is a link to the website of a genius at clock movement animation: Have a good look around. You may need to download Adobe's "Shockwave" Player to enjoy the animations.
Shortt's free pendulum
Expert, electrical horologist, Martin Ridout's web page on the Pulsynetic master clock. (amongst many others) With some really excellent images: Have a good look around while you are there:
Gents Pulsynetic master clock
Another Martin, who looks after a partial, Pulsynetic clock system. Which originally had a number of slave dials including turret slaves, a battery set, a contact programmer and a bell striking machine: Rare images of an existing system in situ. Sadly a number of original items were stripped out before Martin knew of their existence. The bell ringer has been restored and is now working:
Electric Impulse Clock Systems
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Including a web page with a remarkable collection of slave dials:
Electric Impulse Clock Catalogue
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