[Gutenberg 45772] • Chats on Old Clocks
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- Authors
- Hayden, Arthur
- Publisher
- Createspace
- Tags
- clocks and watches
- ISBN
- 9781507585498
- Date
- 2015-03-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 6.47 MB
- Lang
- en
[...] These dry facts may serve to whet the curiosity of the student in regard to the measurement of time and its origin. They add a piquancy to the clock dial as we now know it. Scientific it is, as one of man's most exact recorders of natural phenomena. That an exact timekeeper should be found in the pocket of every schoolboy would seem an astounding miracle to our ancestors two hundred years ago, or even less than a hundred years ago: [...].