Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
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pped by thecold, or requiring a constant attendant. We mayimagine the wonder and enthusiasm excited by theinvention of the clock with wheels worked by aweight. Some associate the discovery with an Arch-deacon of Verona who lived in the ninth century,and was blessed—appropriately for one who… … LOUIS XIV BOULLE CLOCK. no authentic instance of a clock till at least twocenturies later. One is said to have been put upin Westminster Hall in 1298, which was paid forout of a fine levied on a chief justice for dealingtoo leniently with a poor man. The French claim priority for a clock madeby…
