- the fingers, and may beset to any one of the thirteen verticallines. The numerous characters onthe top space of dial indicate the dateson which the pointer is to be set. Thisclock is wound up at sunset, and it iseasy to see that as the little pointeris set towards the right, the nighthours at… … Fig. 16—Japa wardone I and as the pointer toucthe curved lines the hes anyhour is TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 27 read at the left-hand end. The curvedlines formed of dots are the half-hours.The right-hand edge of the dial hasthe twelve horar}^ characters whichwill he explained later. For dividingthe…
Time · Clocks and watches
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