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The four clock faces in the tower of the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum are driven by gears connected by steel pipes to the clockwork located in the base of the tower.

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Director Eric Cale climbs the wooden staircase in the clock and bell tower of the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum.

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Mike Hutmacher / The Wichita Eagle

The four clock faces in the tower of the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum are driven by gears connected by steel pipes to the clockwork located in the base of the tower.

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Mike Hutmacher / The Wichita Eagle

Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum director Eric Cale shows the clockwork, incased in black plexiglass, left, located in the base of the clock and bell tower, and it's connection by steel pipes to the clock faces six stories up.

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Eric Cale, director of the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum, shows the carillon keyboard that plays transistorized music with the sound of bells through speakers in the clock and bell tower.

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Eric Cale pulls the hammer striker of the 1,000 bell in the tower of the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum.

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The clock and bell tower of the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum is six stories, from base to the clock faces.

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Over the years the 1,000-pound bell in the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum has collected numerous signatures.

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Mike Hutmacher / The Wichita Eagle

The clock and bell tower of the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum rises 170 feet from ground level.

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Mike Hutmacher / The Wichita Eagle