Show ILLINOIS TOWN FALLS HEIR HE lit TO WORLDS WORLD'S MOST WONDERFUL CLOCK J AURORA Ill May 20 This city has what might be called the worlds world's most wonderful clock It is an Ingenious piece of ma machinery that tha took fort forty years In the making William William Blandford Blandford Bland Bland- Blandford ford ford- fordan an year two Englishman English English- man Is the Inventor He died here her recently after a residence of sixty years most of which time was spent In perfecting th the clock On his death Mr Blandford left the Invention to the city of Aurora Among the things the the clock clock does are Dispels astronomical claims that equation of ot years could not be accomplished accomplished by machinery H Has a calendar of years years- even ven the double leap years are provided provided pro pro pro- vided for I T Time o equation operates equation operates automatic automatic- ally Has an astronomical dial requiring winding but once In sixty eight years or but fourteen times every thousand years pears Is expected to operate without im- im Impairment Im Im- or attention for tor years yel H Has s a a. calendar which registers the number and name of each day each month and each year Gives the latitude east cast ast and west at principal cities of the world showIng showing showing show- show Ing the time at any hour of ot the day or night in each Has an improved compensation pendulum pendulum pen pen- dulun which makes the clock accurate and is adjusted to normal temperature and automatically controlled by expansion expansion ex expansion ex- ex and contraction as the result of ot changes In heat and cold v Upper dial Is governed by an I day day Has a. a a moon frame showing precisely th the phases of ot the moon moon changing automatically au- au at each quarter Shows the earth and its revolutions around the sun the time It enters the or signs of the zodiac c. c parallelism or the earths earth's axis and th the variations of ot the seasons Operated by two fifty pound weights capable of ot driving the mechanism for tor two m months when the weights weights' are area a automatically rewound by an electric motor Has a ia thermometer erm meter and micrometer attachment showing the exact temperature temperature temperature temper temper- within one fiftieth degree Fahr Fahr- At night the several dials dials' are automatically auto auto- Illuminated Blandford made the entire clock clock clock- structure c cabinet and mechanism I Beautifully carved It stands nine feet in height three feet teet In width and two feet teet in depth The main dial is four i feet in diameter Blandford was the son eon of ot an old English clockmaker ker He came to this country In 1879 and located In Aurora where ho hn constructed this wonderful block In a little workshop adjacent to his home It was his dying wish that It remain in this city Otters Offers of purchase pur purchase pur- pur cha chase e from cities and universities of at the country have been declined by the city |