Ask Caray: What's the history of the Colgate clock and why is it up and running again?
Just across the river in southern Indiana, the Colgate clock lights the night sky and has for decades, but the enormous clock has a storied history.
"One-hundred years ago, Colgate moved into this building and brought this clock from New Jersey and started the light manufacturing era and transformed a prison into a job force of 8,000 and then shortly after the 2000s hit, that job force was cut out, so this building has been dormant for a while," said Jim Ashby, executive director of Cyberdome USA.
Cyberdome is the company that now occupies a portion of the old Colgate building.
As part of their leasing agreement, they decided to get the clock back up and running.
"It was incredibly difficult finding people who knew the technology who may have been exposed to it when it was here, but now that we know what to do it is a simple undertaking," Ashby said.
How the clock functions is top secret.
Nov. 17 is the 100th anniversary of the clock, and Ashby says they may have a few surprises in store.
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