A Wonderful Clock.
A marvellous piece of mechanism has just been exhibited in T>aris. It is an eight-day instrument, with dead beat escapement maintaining power. It chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, plays three tunes every twelve hours, or will play when required. The hands go round as follows !—One, once a minute ; one, once an hour; one, once a week ; one, once a month ; one, once a year. It shows the moon's age, the rising and setting of the sun, the time or high and low water, half ebb and half flood, and by a beautiful contrivance there is a part which represents the water which rises and falls, lifting some ships at high water tide as if they Were ih motion, and, as it recedes, leaves these little automaton ships dry on the sands. The clock shows the hour of the day, day of the week, day of the month, month of the year, and in the day of the month there is a provision made for the long and short month. It shows the signs of the Zodiac ; it strikes or not, chimes or not, as may be desired ; and it has the equation table, showing the difference of clock and sun every day in the year. •.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume VII, Issue 330, 7 March 1876, Page 7
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210A Wonderful Clock. Cromwell Argus, Volume VII, Issue 330, 7 March 1876, Page 7
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