| Show GREAT cloce CLOCK it 46 is impossible to io overrate the ad Vantage ofa reliable knowledge of exact time in all great centers of industry industry and yet although time passes dairy dalry daily dally through london rondon to many parts of the country from greenwich the people of to london adon have with one exception few clocks on which they can implicitly rely 1 the exception and a notable one is the great clock in the new pa lace at westminster for although so costly a production it turns out as respects performance to be perhaps the finest clock of the kind in the world telegraphic communication with greenwich exists for the purpose of enabling the clock to report automatically its state every day to the antiono mer royal the greenwich record therefore demonstrates the goodness of the machine it is not allowed to deviate more than two seconds from the true time and we are told in one of the astronomer royals reports that the rate of the clock may be considers consid ere tain to be much less than one second per week when we consider what 18 the du duration ra of a second of time and that such buch a huge machine is able to perform for a week within that limit we may well n larvel marvel at the result the clock frame ca carrying ing the various trains of wheels etc is fifteen and one half isufi ank ana and four feet seven inches wi dethe the pendulum which makes one vibration in two seconds weighs between six and find seven sleven hundred weight the dias dials of which there are four and ana nd wilm which nrc arc illuminated at nightmare nigh tare iare jare each twenty two and one ono harf barf hub bub feet in diameter alameter and it is a days a man to wind the clock up tip both 11 n and striking parts chambers joynal |
