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 30
reak-ing into a flame. Knots were tied atparticular distances, and the effluxion oftime estimated as the sections betweenthe knots smouldered away. Mons. Plan-chon, of Paris, has one of these curiosities, which I am assured isa genuine relic. In Le Passe temps of Jehan Lhermite, who was born at… … Fig. 14. Old Clocks and U^atcJics and ilicir Makers. Royal masters room. Fig. 14 is a drawing of what appears to bea similar instrument in the Schloss collection. On a stand ofpewter is a glass reservoir, fastened with longitudinal slips of pewter,on one of which are cast the hour numerals from…
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