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 37
hall beable to give engravings.The peculiar clock shown in Fig. 19 appears to be a sixteenth cen-tury production. There are three trains of wheels, all arranged toface the sides of the clock. The clock is twelve inches wide, eleveninches high, nine inches from front to back, and two feet two and… … Fig. 19.—Portable Clock, withStriking Jack. JW-iflJit Clocks. 23 the hours on the large bell with the large hammer in his hands, andat the quarters kicks the two small bells with his heels. In the early part of the fourteenth century, a large stone towerwas built in Palace Yard, opposite to…
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