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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 390

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r the purpose of identification thoughhe did not so mark his early ones.There is a famous clock in the pumproomat Bath, England, of Tompions construc-tion. Little is known of his domestic lifebut he appears to have been unmarried.He died in 1713 and is buried in West-minster Abbey. Tompion was… … Tower of the Winds—An octagonaltower north of the Acropolis of Athensspoken of as horological by Vario andVitruvius. Believed to have had a sun-dialon each of its eight faces and to have con-tained a clepsydra fed by a spring. Train—The toothed wheels of a watchor clock which connect the barrel or…

Time measurements · Clocks and watches

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