Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-02
keniOus Clock
 Must be Reset l Every 68 Years

om ;neton. H., May 1.--Claims
 trnnomers that the equation of
 oars could not be accomplished
 achinery are disproved by the
 completed by William Elan
 f Aurora, H., who has recently
 the age of 82. His clock was
 bor of 40 years. The calendar
 ronped for 10000 years, even
 ouble leap years being provided
 Tbe eouation of time, operating
 atically. has been accomplish
 astronomical dial is wound
 fin every 68 years, or IA times
 but 1 .O00 years. During the first Wears the clock is expected to
 te without impairment or at
 n. The calendar registers the
 er and name of each day, each
 and each year. There is a br plate below the astronomical (which gives the longitude east vest at 127 of the principal cit the world, showing the time Fv hour of the day or night in \ An improved compensation E1un-a device conceived by the kor-is responsible to a large
 for the accuracy of the clock. Pendulum is adjusted to normal krature, and is automatically Oiled by expansion and contrac- Is the result of changes in heat Bold, |
 entire structure, cabinet and knism was made by the inventor
 little workshop adjacent to his 1 The cabinet, beautifully carv- lands nine feet in height, three h width and two feet in depth.
 Series of Dials.
 upper dial marks the time absolute accuracy, and is gov
 by an eight-day movement.
 the time dial is the moon
 showing precisely the phases 5 moon, changing automatically | 5ch quarter. The astronomical | below the time dial, shows the and it's revolutions around the the time it enters the counstel- js or signs of the zodiac, para
 of the earth's axis, variations s seasons, the months and days ke month, giving February 2S flor three successive years and Heap year.
 main dial is four feet in dia- Twenty-four smaller dials [the time in the principal cities E globe, there being a variation te hour in each. The clock is ted by two weights of 50 pounds tcapable of driving the mechan- |or two months. At the end of >eriod the weights are automat- rewound by an electric motor. |otal rewinding process occupies five minutes of each year. clock also has a thermometer Emicrometer attachment which the exact temperature within tftieth degree Farenheit, and the ht of contraction and expansion one thousands of an finch. might, the dials are all auto hlly illuminated.
 Family of Clock Makers. Diam Blanford was born in Lon England, in 1888 and came of line of expert clock and watch cs. A profound impression was upon him in youth when his i was called upon to repair an E, or planetary, for the Green Observatory. The boy was in- J to make a study of the laws bottoms of the planets. He took le study of astronomy and made frery showing the sun and the Is revolving by clock work and handle. He recalls repairing ench repeating watch for pat liter his father had declined the lecause the overhauling appear be hopeless. The boy succeed The customer was George Cruik- f, the caricaturist, who illustrat- |e works of Charles Dickens. pgratlng to America in 1879, [ord located in Aurora. He in- |d many Improvements in the (g machine, neurological machin- pm machinery, breaking and pg machines, etc. In most in- es he profited little by his in Pns and he died comparatively Fas his dying wish that the clock ept in his home city of Aurora. Fnls will be provided for. Of rom the university of Chi and others have been declined.