A floor, or grandfather, clock is a large, pendulum clock housed in a tall wooden casing. Typically, the height of a floor clock ranges from 1.8 to 2.4 meters, and its cabinet is often adorned with carved decorations.
Until the early 20th century, grandfather clocks served as the primary timekeeping device for households and businesses. Their steady ticking provided a background sound that was an integral part of people’s daily lives in their homes.
Many works of fiction feature descriptions of clocks. For instance, in Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin’s story “The Complicated Case” we can find the following mention,
