American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 126
way to preserve the colorof gold when heated sufficiently to hard-solder. Many applications are used for thepurpose, with but indifferent results. Prob-ably yellow ochre mixed with water to theconsistency of a paste, and smeared over thesurface, is as good as anything you can use. J. J. H.—III.—In… … angles to the wall of your building, one dialfacing up and the other down the street, yourbest plan would be to make metal dials (zinc);paint them white, with black hands and fig-ures. The dials you can illuminate by a good sized coal oil lamp, placed above the clockand concealed by two reflectors,…
Clocks and watches
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