Atkinson Tower Clock


Ɗaya daga cikin shahararren shahararren Kota Kinabalu, babban ɗakin benci mafi girma a birnin shine agogon Atkinson. Gidan hasumiya ne mai tsawon mita goma sha biyar, wanda sabanin Sabah ya kwatanta lokaci har tsawon shekaru 110. Hasumiya ta kasance abin tunawa ne kuma yana aiki a karkashin jagorancin Sabah State Museum.

Yaya aka gina hasumiya?

A 1902, wani shahararren dan siyasa, shugaban shugabancin garin Francis George Atkinson, ya mutu daga cutar malaria a shekara 28 a Jesselton (kamar yadda aka kira Kota Kinabalu kafin 1968). Mahaifiyarsa a cikin ƙwaƙwalwar ajiyar ɗansa ƙaunataccen ɗayan ya yanke shawarar yin wani abu don birnin, don amfanin da ya yi aiki.

Ginin watau Atkinson ne aka gina gina hasumiya, har ma da abokantaka masu yawa na marigayin. An gudanar da aikin ne da masu fashin jirgi na jiragen ruwan. A shekara ta 1905, an kammala gine-ginen, kuma an shigar da shi tsawon aikin aikin mai tsaron gidan Birtaniya William Potts. An ji yakin da ake yi a Kota Kinabalu, an fara jin shi ranar 19 ga Afrilu, 1905.

Saboda wurin da aka zaba, ɗakin hasumiya ta kasance wata ma'ana ce don jiragen ruwa, tun lokacin da aka ƙaddamar da saman. An yi amfani da ita a matsayin mai hasken hasken har sai gine-gine masu girma ya kasance a kusa da shi.

A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu, hasumiya ta yi mummunar lalacewa, kuma nan take kanta ta lalace. A shekara ta 1959 an gyara tsarin da kyau, kuma an sake gyara kayan aiki a baya, nan da nan bayan yakin ya kare. A shekarar 1961, an maye gurbin agogon tsaro.

Fasali na tsari

Aikin agogo na Atkinson an yi shi ne daga dabara - itace mai tsanani da ciwon juriya. Tarihi ya ce an gina hasumiya ba tare da amfani da kusoshi ba. An ƙera shi da yanayin weathervanes, wanda yake nuna harufan iskõki.

Yaya za a samu zuwa hasumiyar agogo?

Za'a iya samun hasumiya ta hanyar mota tare da Jalan Tun Fuad Stephen, Jalan Istana ko Jalan Tuaran.