A MARVELLOUS THOUSAND-DAY CLOCK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 3

A MARVELLOUS THOUSAND-DAY CLOCK.

DOES NOT TICK AND NEEDS NO WINDING. Five wheels and a small battery practically sums up. the mechanism of a clock invented by Mr. Sigismund Kutnow, which promises a revolution in clockmaking writei a Home journal). For, unlike many other wonderful clocks which hare been invented of late years, the cost of making which has prevented general use, Sir. Eutnow's timepiece will -be sold at a popular price. For as low as a couple of guineas one will be able to buy this clock, which will go for three years without attention, and at the end, of that time it will only require the -fixing of a neif' batterf —which any boy can do, and which can be purchased for a shilling—to make the clock go for another three years. What is more, the clock will withstand fairly rough usage. It will go upside ijui.i., and, unlike flic ordinary clock, «an be moved about at will without fear of stopping. The original models «et going ia Europe three years ago have had some nasty thumps in being carried about from one country to another, but they arc still going as merrily M ever.

"EUREKA!" "HuMsy," who growls and kicks himself because he mias'es his morning train 'Mirojigh not winding the clock up before i.j.'.ig to bed, will probably agree tha', the "Eureka" clock, as Mr. Kutnow's invention has been called, is a capital came for the invention. The battery is fixed underneath or at the back of the clock, and from this one of the wires jb connected to a plate of iron, which runs horizontally at the base. Above this metal plate hangs a large wheel constructed like the balance-wheel of a watch, which just clears' the plate as it rotate*. At the back is a spring similar to the hair or oscillating spring of a watch. A small magnet runs through the centre of the wheel, which is magnetised on the connection of the electric current, and which pulls its end on the surface of the wheel round towards the horizontal plate below. SIMPLICITY ITSELF.

4 thin strip of steel connected with oae terminal of the battery regulates the pulling power of the magnet so that ■/ives the necessary impetus to the :l. As the latter swings round, this * ■!■:■.! of steel come* into contact with a knob through which the current passes, sad, the magnet becoming charged, the point is pulled down sharply to the hori«mt:il plate. Passing Over this, the magnet; is demagnetised and the wheel swings on until the force of tlie oscillating spring brings it back again. The oscillation is timed and can be regulated by the spring behind to take fixactly a second each way, the mowment being conveyed directly by a lever to the second hand, the minute and hoar hands being conected in the usual manner. THE "EMPIRE" CLOCK/

Mr. Eutnow had the honor of submitting a "Eureka" clock to the King, who , was deeply interested in the explanation of its ingenious mechanism, a fact which i that in January last His. Majesty also inspected with the keenest faterest an ingenious clock called the "Empire" clock, invented by a Woodstock gentleman, which enables the student to ascertain at a glance the mean '-* time, the meridian, and relative position , of ercrv part of the Empire, besldps being able to witness the actual speed and direction of the earth's rotation. , The mothc power is a clock in the base of the stand, and tbe apparatus requires winding only once a week.