Senator David Daggett of Connecticut ordered the eleven-foot ( 3.35 m ) tall clock in late December 1815 from Philadelphia clockmaker Thomas Voigt for use in the Old Brick Capitol . The clock was delivered in 1817 to the Old Senate Chamber and was moved to the corridor outside the newly finished Senate Chamber in 1859 . There is no evidence to support the claim that senators hid illegal liquor in the clock during the Prohibition period . The glass covering the clock 's face was broken in the 1983 United States Senate bombing . The clock , which was renovated in Boston in 2010 , is wound weekly and keeps accurate time
1983 United States Senate bombing
1983 United States Senate bombing
Ohio Clock