Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-03
rONDERFUL CLOCKS.
,,ous Machinery Used for
Keeping Time.
Made wholly of Ice, straw. Paper
.dened Bread-Minute Time
Gamers, One of Which a King
Wore On His Ear.

:. hundred and eleven years ago,
v'h,uary, 1879, Henry Vic, or, as
,ntborities give his name, Henry
~,.k the Nuremberg Wizard" set
\. srst clock, of which we have any
,rac record, in the palace Of the
4 France. Charles V. was King
s-nce at the time although he did
~,riye the erection of his wonder
4mepiece more than year and a
and Nuremberg, "the cradle OF
MON invention" was the mistress
tbe high mechanical arts. Legend
,ceounts and casual illusions of
ma authors to mechanical contriv-
for the measurement of time es-
a the fact almost beyond 8 shadow
doubt, that the clock was known
Years, perhaps centuries, before
historical effort of the ingenious and
fingered De Wyck.
i known that Frederick H., who
in 1851, was at one time presented
he Sultan Of Egypt with q time
Erring contrivance provided with
#s and a bell. Dante, who died
Eight years before De Wyck, set
Eonderful "time-teller" going on
rgal palace of the French King, in
separate passages of his works
rs to a striking clock. So, too,
lei who wrote in 1920, speaks of
ing clock used by the Cisterian
d. History is history, whether right
rong making it worse than heresy
writer to go beyond certain pre-
BID limits.
all the authorities" concur in Civ
10 this Nuremberger of uncertain
T. and still more uncertain nativity,
ionor of being the original clock
b. shall follow time-honored
dent and accord to him esteem
n clearly should be divided equally
han several inventors who lived
billed in the dawn which followed
tie wake of the night of the Dark
aradus Dasipodius of Strasburg,
perfected his wonderful astronomi-
lock in 1878, is believed to have
The first to apply his skill to the
FtOus in clock-making.
best description of it is that OF a
der who spent five hours day for
ETOne days, carefully inspecting
part of it before attempting to
70 the public pen-picture of its
lertulintricacies. Although couched
te peculiar language of the times,
bounding in odd and unseeming
kssiOns, the description is other
emarkably clear. He says:
hStrasburg | spent almost a full
h putting in half day each day
aee weeks, studying out the curl
stO be found in the strange clock
Eed by one Conradus Dasipodtus.
Rt the main part of the clock stands
De- which shows to perfection the
ns of the heavenly bodies. The
TeHs are carried about by mover
every twenty-four hours: Saturn,
Is proper motion, is carried once
every thirty years, Jupiter in
be- Mars in two; the sun, Mercury
elus in one year, and the moon
each m nth. In the clock itself
are two tables, one to the right,
iher to the left. These show the
PES Of the sun and moon from the
Flj1Sto the year 1924. A third table
|res the middle of the space in the
&Sinterior. This table is divided
q i1ree parts. In the first part a
ROi Apollo and Diana shows the
Of the year and the day thereof
Returned once about in the course
selve months. The second part
the year of our Lord and the
1Nhal days, the hours of each day,
alnutes of each hour, and the sec
Of each minute, besides Easter and
Tier feast days and the dominica
D. The third part of the table has
graphical description of all Ger
and France, a plat of Strasburg
he names of all those who assisted
hiding the clock. In the middle
Of the clock there is an astrolabe
ng the signs through which each
'' passes, and also statues of eact
@¥ planets upon round piece
VA lying fiat, so that every day the
'eot the planet that rules the day
= forth, the others being bidder
~A the frame. Above these there il
leStrlal globe, which marks thu
rs the half hours and the min
There is also the skull of nal
"o statues of small boys, one o
y 'arns the hour glass every tim
Vck strikes, the other contentini
MI by putting forth rod. Abov
III turn, are statues categorical
'hg summer, Autumn and Winter
VAe upper part, still above tn
named statues, are the figures G
VIZ men: these strike the quartz
: with their hammers on a gong
,'alUe OF Death, a hideous lookin
0n' comes out to strike at eac
VII oat is driven off by a statue {
~ with a spear IN his hand, Il
quarters; but in the fourth qua
,ue ngure of Christ retreats al
strikes the hour with a bone. I
" Ne finishes striking he falls In
y anu all -he chimes are set ringin
,'lce each day the image of Cos
slts on the top of the FRAMEWORK
M naps his wings and crows aloud
mans "Rarities of Mechanical I
+'y says that it run continual
'so centuries without repair
Inland Tales" makes a stateme
Iss.y to the contrary. 1t sa!
The inventors name "
VI every tongue and msmbe