WONDERFUL OLD CLOCK
REPAIR AFTER 80 YEARS A clockmaker of Weimar, Germany, has succeeded in putting in order a wonderful old clock. This timepiece was made in 1704, for Duke William Ernest of Woimar, by Johannes Asmann. Not only did it tell the time of day, itrecorded the duke's age from time to time and also the position of the sun and moon in the heavens, in addition, on each day of the week a different picture of some Biblical subject appeared to remind the duke of his pious duties. For 150 years the clock went per-, foetly. Then its mechanism failed, probably owing to the strain of being adjusted to tell the ages of successive dukes in turn. It has now been repaired and attracts visitors from far and wide to the Castlo Museum at Weiniar.. ______________
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22800, 6 August 1937, Page 12
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137WONDERFUL OLD CLOCK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22800, 6 August 1937, Page 12
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