Show covol clock performs ms many tasks spartanburg S C made about 1880 a four faced clock still ticks away here keeping time cha ting movements of the moon and sun and incidentally telling time keeping track of days and months all on a master wheel ro tating once every 13 years the clock was the creation of dan lei iel davis who used crude tools to cut its wheels gears and cabinet in hie his small cabin in the carolina moun mountains tarns one face records the 24 hour progress of the sun another charts the course and phases of the moon A third tells the day and month even allowing for the extra leap year day the fourth face performs a clock a ordinary timekeeping duty R 0 davis grandson of the skilled make now owns the novel gadget which holds a place of honor in his home |