The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-15
CLOCK TICKlNGS.

The largest clock bell in the Unftets
States is located IN thetower of the Andres,
coggin mill in Lewiston, Me. Its weight
Is 10000 pounds.
1t is curious fact that in the writings
of the two greatest old English poets are
| found the surest data thEt can be addUced
of the early use of clocks and watches in
| England
A famous clock can still be seen IN the
| Tore del Orologio, erected by Petrus LON
bardus in Venice, in 1896 1t has q blue
and gold dial, and in many respects is
remarkable piece Of mechanism.
In 1926 aclock was put up in Wells cathe-
dral, England, and mention Is also made
of clock, apparently of some new con-
struction, invented by Robert Wallingford,
abbot of st. Adams, in 1896. This clock
was still running III the time of Henry VIII
Clocks have been made to go a year with
out winding. such as that which is pre-
| served at Hampton Court, England; but
they have generally proved unsatisfactory,
the extreme delicacy of their adjustment
making them susceptible to the slightest
| extraneous disturbance.
The regular manufacture of public
the reign of Edward III, that considerate
monarch, in the year 1868, having invited
three Dutch an logiers from Delft for the
express purpose of benefiting his subjects
by knowledge of the art
The largest clock with an illuminated
dial in the United States Is that on the
Communipaw ferry building of the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey. The diameter
of the dial is AZ feet, and the figures can
be easily read from the New York shore.
The dial is lighted by eighteen incandes-
cent lamps
1t is recorded that in the Fourteenth cen
fury an artist named James Dond con-
struoted q clock foTthe city of Padus which
was long considered the wonder of that
period. Besides indicating the hours it
represented the motion OF the sun, moon
and planets, and pointed out the different
festivals of the year.
The weight of the movements Of Amerf
can tower clocks ranges from 800 TO $500
pounds, according to size; the pressure
from the weights required to drive them
ranges for "time trains (the simple move
menD from I25 to 800 pounds, and the pres
sure required TO drive the striking train"
ranges from $50 to 500 pounds, according to
the size Of the bell from which full tone
is desired.
The first complete clock moved by
weights Of which there is positive record
was constructed early in the Thirteenth CEN
fury. 1t was the work Of g Saracen me-
chanic, who received about =, 900 for the
fruit of his ingenuity. This clock is said
TO have kept time very accurately, and was
afterward presented To Frederick II by the
sultan of Egypt, under whose directions 1t
was made.
About the time DR.. Franklin was study
ing upon his Theological problem-or not
many years later-F.i Terry began making
wooden clocks in Connecticut. his imPle-
meuts being simply saw and Jackknife.
After building up quite business, he sold
out (in 1910 to Seth Thomas ard Silas
Hoadley, and from this small beginning
the great industry Of American clocknlak-
ing took It's rise
De Wyck's clock. made by Henry de
WICK in 1879, for Charles ' OF France, Is
celebrated. 1t has been styled by clock
makers the parent Of modern tiI1ekeep-
ers." According 70 the description gwen
Of this clock, IL differed n nothinc-exoept
IN having horizontal balance instead OF .
pendulum. and one instead Ct two hands
from many old church ciocksstil 70 exist
ence II Englsnd; Tor instance. rdss e s..
Ma-gsrsS,s, Westminster -Bostoz TTsa-
script