The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-06
THE FIRST WATCH MADE.

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THE FIRST WATCH MADE.
when and BY Whom e. n Historical Ps.s
xle-its Early hume.
Watches are believed by historians
to have been used as early as 1i70..
The word watch is derived from the
Saxon waccan-tO wake; the Swedish
Yacht to watch. AID the Danish vaghts
the English watch has the same mean
ing. taken. probably from the watch
OF the night The actual name In ita
earliest days was pocket-clock. ID
was the perfected invention Of the
theological science Of many centuries
and included the sun-dial the clepsydrA.
or water-clock the hour or sand glasa
and wheel clock. by actual gradasiona
of experiments and skill
The ancient German city of Nurem>
burg claims the invention of the
pOcket-clock says the Detroit Free
Press and it is fact that these first
clumsy watches were from their oval
shape called Nuremberg eggs and;
that the town was famous for their
production.
A noble Milanese poet alludes To-
watches in a sonnet written by him in
1895. so that watches had then reached
Italy. And that country has tried to
fasten the triumph of their invention
upon a Florentine astronomer but
without success The Emperor Charles
W. OF Spain possessed a watch or. -
1t was then called. a small table-cloclk
He amused himself with several Of
these in his retirement in the monas-
terry of St Juste. 1t is said he could
not make them record the time and
one day he broke out in this Impatient
moral reflection on his past conduct:
What an gorgeous fool must have
been to have squandered so much
blood and treasure in an absurd at
tempt to make all men think alike
when l cannot even make q few
watches keep time together"
Upon another occasion q careless
turned the timekeepera The emperor,
only smiled at the accident and said
pleasantly:
Il have been laboriug for some time
to make these clocks go together. and
now you have accomplished it in an
instant"
Watches were introduced into Eng>
land during the reign OF Henry Will.
who possessed a watch that went foe
a week. A watch belonging to thia.
monarch was on exhibition in London
at the worlds fair In 1851.
A large oval watch which Wa
owned by Mary Queen of Scots il still
in good order in the museum of the
Andersonian university. 1t has ..
mixed metal case like that of q hunt.
ing watch. and is much larger than
our present watches The dial plate
is deliberately engraved with the rep
resentation Of some continental city.
The interior has q cord Of cat-gut In
stead OF chain. The cat-gut is NOT
found In watches later than the six.
teenth century.
John Knox, the reformer. was
given watch by Queen Mary at q
time when she wished to cajole him
into an approval Of her schemes II
is OF octagonal oblong shape an inch
and hall in length and one and two.
tenths in breadth It has two cases
or lids which are concave silver
plates each opening by itself upon .
brass hinge Under the upper lid -
the brass front Of the watch with q
small silver dial-plate in the middle
The dial plate is only nine-tenths d
an inch in diameter. Under .he 9TH
or casa or back. Of the watch are.
carved on the brass plates these words:
IN. Forsaict q PARIS" The interior
seems to be disposed nearly in the
same mode as later watches It has
q crown escapement Instead Of the.
chain of the fusee there il fine therm
band. The balance-wheel has NO
spring.
The manufacture Of tiny watches
20 minute that they could b worn n.
Q ring. is mentioned a. early as $500
A musical watch now exhibited In
the St Petersburg Academy Of Science
performs . religious chant with scenic.
Accomplishments 1t Is about the sine.
of an egg. Within it 10 . represents
ton OF Christ with Roman sentipels On
watch On pressing q spring the.
stone rolls from the tomb the senti..
nels fall down the angels appear the
holy women enter the sepulcher. and
the same chant which is sung in the
Greek church on Easter Eve is actually
performed. This watch was invented
BY an ingenious Russian peasant dur.
ing the reign of Catharine Of Russia.
The silver clock-watch Of the UNI
fortunate king. Charles L. is still In
existence 1t is most deliberately en-.
graved with pastoral scenes on the
dial and q border Of howera and Is Q
very interesting relic Of that unhappy.
monarch.
A Roun limp Ticket.
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