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===Benoy dial=== [[File:Benoy sun clock.jpg|upright|thumb|170px|Benoy Sun Clock showing 6:00 p.m.]] The Benoy dial was invented by Walter Gordon Benoy of [[Collingham, Nottinghamshire]], England. Whereas a gnomon casts a sheet of shadow, his invention creates an equivalent sheet of light by allowing the Sun's rays through a thin slit, reflecting them from a long, slim mirror (usually half-cylindrical), or focusing them through a [[cylindrical lens]]. Examples of Benoy dials can be found in the United Kingdom at:<ref name="BSSRegister">List correct as of British Sundial Register 2000. {{cite web |title=The Sundial Register |url=http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/register.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717073638/http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/register.htm |archive-date=2007-07-17 |access-date=2008-01-05 |website=British Sundial Society}}</ref> *Carnfunnock Country Park, [[County Antrim]], Northern Ireland *Upton Hall, [[British Horological Institute]], [[Newark-on-Trent]], Nottinghamshire *Within the collections of St Edmundsbury Heritage Service, [[Bury St Edmunds]]<ref>{{cite web|last=St. Edmundsbury |first=Borough Council |title=Telling the story of time measurement |url=http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/Telling-the-Story-of-Time-Measurement.cfm |access-date=2008-01-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224121416/http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/Telling-the-Story-of-Time-Measurement.cfm |archive-date=December 24, 2007 }}</ref> *[[Longleat]], Wiltshire * [[Jodrell Bank]] Science Centre * [[Birmingham Botanical Gardens (United Kingdom)|Birmingham Botanical Gardens]] * [[Science Museum, London]] (inventory number 1975-318)
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