Hood, Grant · Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Jeweler and Optician · leaf 12
wn this dial treasure it asone of their most valuable family relics. They watchedme with suspicion even while I photographed it. OLD AND NEW METHODS OF MEASURING TIME. About the queerest method of telling the hours thathas come to my notice was told me by one of the old set-tlers of New York. The… … Sun Dial One Hundred Years Old. on the window sill of the south window were a series ofnotches cut, the shadow from the casing as it was cast uponthese notches indicated the hours. Oandles were in use at one time, they were made withten rings in the tallow and contained the right amount that 9…
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