Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 408
. The time is also flashed all night ina novel manner from the great gilded lanternat the apex of the tower, 696 feet above the pave-ment. The quarter-hours are announced fromeach of the four faces of the lantern by a singlered light, the halves by two red flashes, the threequarters by three… … IKE TOWN CLOCK AT ASCIlliUSLEBEN. (bEE PAGE 258. pounds), F (2000 pounds), E flat (3000 pounds),and B flat (7000 pounds), and each quarter-hourring out the Westminster Chimes, in successivebars. These are the highest chimes in the world,being situated on the forty-second floor, 615 feetabove the…
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