Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-01-03
"A MECHANICAL WONDER.
A Clock ia sermany That 10 - Marvel O
Mechanical Geniu~-p Brief description.

A Clock La .ermany That 10 q Marvel Of
Mechanical Geaius-r Brief description.
A copy OF The Billngen Germany
Swarzwoalder, handed in by German
friend. contains tine description Of
wonderful clock. which, bcing translated.
Is after this fashion:
About a year ago "a scientific clock was
on exhibition here, the maker Of which,
MIR. Martin, called II the Eighth Wonder of
the World. Judges In the matter If
clocks found this designation exaggerated,
as the work, ON close examination, failed
20 make the impression which the high
coloresl description led people TO expect
Two Black Forest clock makers. Adolphus
Haeusle and Augustus Noll have, how
ever, created in the course Of the year a
work which places the Martin clock very
much in the shade. This Haensle
and Noll clock has height of 3.2O
meters. width 3 meters and depth
I meter; il is built in the style
of the renaissance, and with its
figures and carvings. executed in a
truly artistic manner. The clock shows
the seconds and strikes the hours, quar-
ters and minutes. Besides, it shows the
days Of the week, months. seasons and
the years up to 10000. IL shows the
solar system. the phases Of the moon, the
revolution of the earth and the zodiac;
then ON seventeen clock faces the time at
Berlin, Prague, Riga, Vienna. Cairo
Egypt. Tflis, Trieste Rome. Munich,
Berne, New York. Geneva, Boston, Paris,
Metz, London, and in the center. on the
principal face. the time OF the place
where the clock is located.
The arrangement Of the clock Is the
following; Below in the center there is,
under glass and quite open 20 view. the
principal movement. which. when
wound, will run for year, supposing
that the clock Is not moved. Al the right
of the movement there il the work of the
calendar ium, at the left music box, and
IN the front the globe Of the earth, which
receives its revolution by very simple
but ingenious mechanism. Above the
movement is the second and minute
hand. after the revolution OF which an
I angel strikes bell and indicates the ex-
piration OF n minute, while the hands OF
the seventeen faces advance Gump) one
minute. The expiration of quarter is
again indicated 10y an angels striking
two bells.
man ARE represented.--at the end of the
first quarter child appears, at the second
a youth. at the third man. and at the
fourth an old man. The hour is struck
by Death, by whose side stands an angel,
who winks Death to desist at the appear.
ancc Of the first three figures, but suffers
him Ia strike the hour at the appearance
Of the old man. At the left hand, hall
height Of the clock, there stand the twelve
apostles, and before them Christ. AT the
expiration of an hour the twelve bow he.
fore Christ, who hl,sses them by raising
his hands. At O O'Clock. mornings and
evenings, a sexton rings the bell. while
three monks step from their cell and e
into the church for prayer; as they go in
choral music is played. At 10 O'Clock in
the evening night watchman enter
upon his duty and blows his horn every
hour until o'clock in the morning; at .
the cock crows, standing in natural size
al the left upper corner Of the clock.
At IL O'Clock noon and night the music
box plays piece, and at l2. night. the
calendary changes and the following
week. day AMI date appear. and at the
end Of the month. whether Of thirty OF
thiriv-onc days. the name of the next
month will come up. and leap years are
not forgotten. At the left upper end
near the cock is representation Of the
apparent cours' (revolution) of the sur
round the eartn. which changes accord
lug To the season, 50 that ii appear:
larger or smaler On the other side
nearest tile cuckoo is the course Of the
moon, representing the different phases
Of that satellite. The globe of the earth
reyolves every twenty four hours. Or
the 2ist of March, the beginning oI
spring the cuckoo. also represented oi
natural size. h.gins its musical perform
anee and continues until the beginning
Of fall.
Each season is represented symbol
ically. March 81, spring appears as q
maiden IN company of child with
wreatlis Of flowers; June 81, the maiden
carries a st,eaf of wheat and the child q
sickle, SEPT. II, both carry fruit, and Dec
2i. the maiden has spinning wheel and
the child spinning whirl tspindle). On
Die. 81, n lovely Christmas picture !:
represented in the chapel and tlle music
box plays an appropriate tune. On Dec.
3i. at II O'Clock at night the trumpetei
PLAYS solo. accompanied by the or.
chestra, to Indicate the beginning Of the
new year and at the same time the mum.
bcr Of the year changes.
The run Of this clock, as we have de.
scribed il, would repeat itself up to the
year 10. 600, and might then be prolonged
FOR another 10000 years. If the numbers
were changed. OF course this is illusory,
but it shows that such work might le
created. The clock would have to stand
in the same place for 10000 years and Ia
wound regularly every year. And the
tooth Of time and the natural decay 81
every thing earthly must he stopped
which il not very Waterbury
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