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Time telling through the ages (1919)

Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-, Ingersoll, Robt. H., & Bro · New York, Pub. by Doubleday, Page & Co. for Robert H. Ingersol & Bros. · leaf 162

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Large Brass Table ClockDutch, Seventeenth Century ■*4 First Forms of the Watch Types of table clocks and two of the oldest watches in existenceIn the collections of the Metropolitan Museum. yd AoolO sMbT t98B0 baqfiriS-mmQ ni mozwaH wamoIoHnB^ odji aiolad ,§iudm3iuVl jdji ,nobnoJ zaHoifiW jaablO… … How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Timepiece at every step of his journey; and the sun would remainsteadily at the same height above the horizon, if he alwayskept to one parallel of latitude. His rate of speed wouldhave to be about eighteen miles a minute, if he chose totravel along the…

Time measurements · Clocks and watches

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