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 28
to Charlemagne. Gifford in his history of France says : The dial was composedof twelve small doors, which represented the hours; each dooropened at the hour it was intended to represent, and out of it camethe same number of little balls, which fell one by one, at equalintervals of time, on a brass… … Fig. iia. oclock twelve horsemen in miniature issued forth at the same timeand shut all the doors. Hamburger, in Beckmanns History of Inventions, dates therevival of clepsydra^ to some time betv/een 1643 and 1646; andDr. Hutton asserts that in 1693 the first water clock was brought toParis from…
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