AN INGENIOUS CLOCK
An ingenious piece of mechanism, which has been on exhibition in Dunedin, has for some time been attracting the attention of passers-by. It is a neatly-constructed model of an old railway locomotive. Stated to bo the work of a French cloekworker, the engine has as one of its most conspicuous features a clock which keeps good time, the "innards" being tucked away in the body of the locomotive. However, this isfar from'being all the appurtenances included in the model, for, in addition to an aneroid barometer, fitted near the clock, there is also a thermometer and a compass. The thermometer runs up and down the long funnel, and the compass lies right on top of it. The driving wheels of the engine can be set .in motion, and the hours are struck on a bell. To trace the history of the model is a difficult matter, but judging from the venerable "puffing Billy" pattern of locomotive represented it must have been made many decades ago. '
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 19
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168AN INGENIOUS CLOCK Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 19
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