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Show Builds Mystery Clock; Takes Secret to Grave SALT LAKE CITY. Christian Jensen, Danish emigrant to Utah, constructed an 8 foot mystery clock of primitive materials and took the secret of its operation to his grave in 1898. Not even his son( who helped build it and later became a watchmaker in his own right, could decipher its maze of pulleys, weights, dials, and ropes, although he tinkered with it for years. It won a prize as the best clock exhibited at a show although al-though it did not run. The Jensen clock struck the quarter, quar-ter, half and hourly changes on different-toned -chimes. It gave the changes of the sun and moon and told the seasons. A revolving globe above the face told time around the world. A separate dial gave the hours from one to 24 anticipating modern aerial aer-ial time. The clock is now in a museum of pioneer relics. |