SOMETHING LIKE A CLOCK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3194, 13 April 1911, Page 5

SOMETHING LIKE A CLOCK.

THE; LATEST THING IN TIMEPIECES.

The palatial offices of a Liverpool friendly society are to be adorned with a four-dial timepiece, two hundred and 20ft. above the ground, each face ot which measures twenty-hvo feet across and weighs three and three-quarter tons, including five hundredweight of opal glass for glazing, while the minute hands are fourteen feet long by three wide at the broadest point. . The clock is electrically driven, the internal mechanism being insignificantly small for such a huge timepiece, ancl completely free from, complicated trains of wheels, weights, and winding appa--1 The hours are indicated by broad black marks three and a-half feet long instead of by Roman or Arabic characters, and the minute spaces are no less tlian fourteen inches apart., Another novel feature is tli automatic switching on and off of the electric light, by which is is illuminated at dusk and dawn in all seasons or tlie year, without necessitating an ascent of the tower. . , . There is an ingenious contrivance whereby compensation is ever introduced for the occurrence of a leap-year and the error is so slight _as to be ot little account during a period, of thirty years, at the end of which time the correction is effected. - . . The clock is of English design and construction throughout, and its successful completion has (established a unique horological record.