Why Standard Electric Time clocks?
I think there’s a couple of answers to this one. First of all, Standard Electric Time clocks were the first ones of this type I’d ever seen, way back in kindergarten. To this day, I remember sitting on the floor in Mrs. Mosher’s room (Room 5) at then Pulaski Elementary School for the first day of kindergarten, and noticing the clock clicking ahead every minute. And whenever the clock clicked to 9:10, the buzzer buzzed. Every day, without fail. Then in first grade, I noticed that the clock was different in that room, but it did the same thing, at the same time. I was fascinated by it. In my later elementary years, we were taken to the high school for six weeks each year for swimming lessons. I noticed they had clocks that did the same thing, but they were made by someone else, and never seemed to agree on what time it was. (A chronic problem of that clock system – it wasn’t Standard Electric). As my travels brought me to other schools, I noticed the other manufacturers of these clock sy
