Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 285
dra) when at home. The latter,which measured the flight of time by the passage of water from onevessel to another, was in all probability more susceptible of improve-ment than the instrument in which a measured quantity of fine sandwas the regulator. At least we know, on the authority of… … Artistic Homes. 241 perfection. Eginhard, the secretary of Charlemagne, has left a de-scription of the famous water-clock sent by the Khalif Haroun-al-Raschid to the great Frankish emperor, from which it appears thatnot only was the apparatus furnished with a dial, but that it struck thehours, and…
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