The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-25

I back against the spring. This process is
1 continued as long as there is a supply of
| compressed air. Similar contrivances are
1 made for a liquid supply. An ingenious
| invention in a pneumatic system of clocks,
| to be placed in large building, sucn az
I o college, factory, etc. All the clocks are
I actuated by air pressure. The air passes
\ through a large chronometer or master
| clock before reaching the series and gives
i-uniform impulses, which keep the minor
! clocks ticking in uniform time.
( The truth of the old saw, Lazy people
1 take the most palms. is no better exem-
. plified than by a number of patents for
winding clocks. One inventor believes his
scheme for Harvesting the rain for this
purpose to be so valuable to mankind as
to require insurance against infringement.
The rain collected on the roof flows into
I a tank and gradually expels itself through
/ a tube containing a water wheel attached
A to the winding mechanism of the clock.
\ A few weeks ago another patent was Is
| sued for a clock which is wound by cham
ges Of atmospheric temperature.
A bulb and column of mercury do the
work. When the atmosphere grows
warmer and the mercury rises the latter
pushes float before it in the tube This
action, by a complicated arrangement of
cogwheels raises the weights of the cloct.
Another lazy man would have the public
patronize his scheme for keeping the
clock wound by means of small windmllls
arranged on his roof. Equally remarka-
Bile is an attachment whereby a wind is
communicated to the handspring of
clock whenever the key of a neighboring
gas jet is turned. A more practical
scheme however, is an electric system by
which one regulator clock in a building Of
a, community winds and corrects all OF
the others on its circuit daily by momen-
tary contact.
A Boston genius lately patented an
alarm clock which he claims to be of es-
pecial value to cooks or laboratory work.
ers The set is graduated to fine points,
so that the alarm will ring exactly at the
desired moment. The alarm can be made
to sound at the end of a very brief pc
Rod. 1t is recommended to careful and
scientific cooks as especially valuable in
broiling meats, boiling eggs, etc.
Those addicted TO the often disastrous
second nap habit might find salvation In
a novel alarm clock which repeats its
clamor several times at given intervals.
Another alarm clOck continues ringing for
an hour or more, unless the sleeper arises
and turns II on
Alarm attachments are devised for
watches Any one may thus carry re-
mnder within his waistcoat pocket. The
striking watch seems also to have caus-
ed great activity in the fertile inventive
brain Perhaps the best idea Is a push
button attachment. When this is press
ed the watch strikes the exact hour in
key OF one tone. and the minutes, count
ing by FIVE, in another key. Many similar
striking mechansms have been devised for
clocks. Some inventors would have the
time announced almost every minute of
the day and night. Others are satisfied
with five, ten and fifteen-minute inter-
walls between the announcements. The
single stroke at the half hour has also
given the inventive mind great annoyance.
One inventors plan is to have the chimes
at the half hour strike the hour previously
passed but IN a different tone. Another
would have the clock announce every flve
minutes the fun hour. and, after a brief
space, strike one. two. three ETC., to In
dicate FIVE, ten or fifteen minutes after.
A watch for the blind has a portion of
its dial exposed 20 the touch. Ribs. or
radii. like the spokes OF a wheel. are rails
ed from the surface and extend from the
center 20 the hour marks on the circum-
ference. The hands are tipped with knobs
which protrudo through two concentric
circular slots. one for the minute and
the other for the hour hand. BY running
his fingers over this dial a blind man, IL
y claimed. may readily ascertain the
time.