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Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)

Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 24

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econtrivances for measuring time were of the simplest description.They appear to have consisted each of a basin filled with waterand exposed in some niche or corner of a public place. At theextreme end of the vessel was a spout or tap, from which trickledthe liquid, drop by drop, into a receiver… … Fig. 6. lO Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. very small hole in the bottom. The bowl, placed in a vessel con-taining water and floating thereon, gradually filled. At the expira-tion of an arranged interval it sank, and a boy or other watcherthen struck a gong, and thus announced the time.…

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