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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 222, 16 September 1909, Page 7

What is described as the largest clock in the world is shortly to be installed on the tower of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building in New York. The hands of this clock are being tested on the building of a clock company at Brooklyn/ They are so large that in making a revolution they pass three stories of the building, and when one of them crosses a window the light is completely shut off. The minute-hand, from the centre pin t» the tip, is 14ft, and this combined with the counterpoise of 6ft, makes the haad 20ft long. The hour-hand, of course, > is much smaller, being lift long. The «k)ck will be 400 ft from the ground, and when the hands are illuminated fey electrioity it h said that they can be seen thirty miles away on a clear; Might