The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-29

The oft.repeated question of what became of the pine might with equal propriety be asked of the watch manu- lecturers of the United States in re- gard to watches. There Is one manu- facturer who is now turning them out at the rate of ten thousand a day, and he Is but one of dozens of manufac- turers. There is no line of invention that has called forth more ingenuity than the making of clocks and wat ches. For instance. Thomas w. Law son, the great system smasher, has fifty thousand dollar watch that never alioows him to forget the market At $40 In the morning the gong sounds in no uncertain way, and again at s:50. If he does not then give atten- ton to Its warning. 1t again, at e;5e prociainas the fact that the market is about to open In the afternoon just before the market closes 1t gets busy again. so as to remind him that the last chance to get in on the closing market is passing MT. Lawson wears with this watch a gold chain made of links, on each of which is craved q typical gypsy, the whole chain pro- trayins every type of gypsy in the world.
 Jersey City now boasts of the biggest clock in the world; in fact 1t Is so big that its dial makes that of its next nearest competitor look like the face of Liiliputian clock. This dial mea- sures thirty-eight feet by day and forty by night, the electric lights which mark the minutes being placed a foot outside the periphery fthe day. time dial. When the clock was put in to position 1t required sixteen men to carry the hour hand. which Is fifteen feet from end to end, and threeN feet, ten inches at it's widest point. The minute hand is twenty feet long and wide in proportion. Every minute the tip of this hand moves twenty-three inches, and during a day 1t travels more than half a mile. In place of numerals coffin-shaped strokes of black sixty-six inches long are used to represent the hours With all the weight of hands, the mechanism is so perfectly adjusted that two ounces of pressure on the pendulum spffice to give 1t the necessary motion. It Is guaranteed not to vary more than few seconds month.
 Easily the most remarkable clock in the world is the new radium clock which will run thirty thousand years without resetting. A half grain of radium Is Introduced into a tube, and two small leaves of aluminium are also added. These leaves become charged HAtA CuEIGnt Lu&L 0EANGH LAGLH 8kAlnHL the glass. When they touch the glass this current passes out of them and they return to the former position, only to repeat the performance lnces- sanity. By the introduction of a coherer similar to those used in wire less telegraphy a small electric bell can be made to ring off the hours This little clock has been adapted to meet commercial purposes, and a few of them have been imported into the United States and can bought for about fifty doIlar&
 The four-hundred-day French clocks are regarded as great novelties in the United States. They are geared so high that one turn of the main spring wheel will produce thousands of turns of the rachet wheel. and the rachet wheel turns once in every 150 sec- onds. The pendulum Is suspended on a. minute strip of brass. and requires fifteen seconds to make complete vi. bration. The clock is about the sim plest time-keeper on the market The works are enclosed under glass globe. leaving the whole mechanism in. fhIi view.
 The most remarkable clock ever con- structed was built for the town hall at Munich, Germany. It has three separate clock t0wera in one. Four years were required to build 1t and two years to. make the calculations on which It's construction was based. The builder was Christian Reichmann. One dial shows the time of day. Another shows the time eighty of the princi- pal cities of the globe. Another dial represents the solar system, showing every movement of each of the planets and their attending satellites. Another dial shows the movement of the vari- ous consetellauons and the relations of the solar system to them. StIll an- other dial shows the moon in all it's phases and changes. When 1t Is related that one dial alone requires four hundred wheels and ten thousand teeth. one begins to st a conception of the great task of making this clock
 Another remarkable time piece is to be found in a German town tower. The case represents a country church, four teen by twelve by three feets In addition to having regular features of an astronomical clock 1t furnishes music, gives the bugle calls at the proper times, blows the watchman,s horn, and initiates the cocks crow and the cuckoo's call. At 9 o'clock every morning the side doors of the church open revealing the peasant worshippers inside at their morning devotions The figure of Death appears every hour