In Switzerland they are clocks which do not need hands and faces. The clock merely stands in the hall, and you press a button in its stomaph, ' when by means of phonographic internal arrangements, it calls out "Half-past bix' or "Twenty minutes to eleven," as the case may be.
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12459, 8 February 1909, Page 4
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49Untitled Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12459, 8 February 1909, Page 4
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