.Aeroplane trips are the novel cure for whooping cough "discovered" by a German doctor; the young patients were taken for cruises of au hour each at a height of 10,000 feet. With neither hands nor face, a clock at the Greenwich Observatory keeps dead time. It is what is known as a free pendulum clock, and has another clock which starts the mechanism to swing the pendulum.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 103, 3 May 1929, Page 10
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