A REMARKABLE CLOCK.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 4

A REMARKABLE CLOCK.

Recently the "Empire Clock, Was submitted to the inspection of his Majesty the King^by its inventor, Mr J. H. Overton. This ingenious recorder gives the correct tiihe all over the world (says an exchange), demonstrates the rotation ot the 'earth on its axis a.nd. its actual speed, and shows a^a/glance thq . deference in the time between^ all places on the earth's surface and the coi*. reet mean time at any;to^or pkc*3 in .the Eastern vor WesterhH«n^ phere. Its educational advantages Le obvious; for it enables schgars ; to learn, in , the concrete. *c in time caused by rotation and the reativr P osi*tion of every place in'the world and its exact position at .any time in relation to the height of the. sun. Further -a metal globe that can be attached shows the^he.ght. of the *im in degrees above the > -horizon |or tvei*y dav in the year. The mechan sm is quite Simple. Its.mamfoage ts a terrestial globe, which, completes one revolution on its axis in twentyfour hours in the same direction as that in which itself Parallel with the Equator s ; .a fixed rine having the .twenty-four houra, md g the*lubdivisions.engraved^ black for the hours f™ n - 6 *?' m < ; ™ m b i*m and in red from : 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tte'meridians of longitude. are 15d^|. apart; and when any -^."^J B^ ■ i.~J\ tv. i+Q own mean time all tne in^ on the hour ring the actual time £ any place, and' the guide can be +i*nn 'is to be permanently usea. clock is specify adapted f or., use^in schools, possessing as. it undoubtedly does c^Jisiderable educational value.