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 nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 487
y pulling a string. The few somewhat similar clocksknown to exist are highly prized by their owners. One not sodecorative as the example here shown is in the King of Italyssummer palace at Monza.31 470 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Magnetic Timekeepers.—Groilier de Serviere devised a… … Fig. 620.—Bird-cage Clock about 1780. floated round till it pointed to the time, and then gradually crept tothe figures in succession as the hours advanced. Underneath therim of the bowl was a magnet of the horseshoe type, which wascaused to revolve once in twelve hours ; the tortoise was of cork…
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