Show The e Worlds World's Biggest Clock Clocks pIa play an important part In our lives regulating the ebb an and flow now of our activities although we rarely over realize it Some of tho the largest clocks are the the electric clocks which tell tell the t time me for Cor thousands of people daily The b biggest of these is said to be he in England It I is Installed in the tower of the tho Royal Liver Building in Liverpool This huge keeper of time was designed contracted and erected by Gent Co Ltd Leicester ter England The clock standing at an altitude of feet from the ground has four dials each 25 feet in diameter The hands of this clock which are fourteen feet in length and three feet wide in the center are aro constructed constructed constructed con con- of or sheet copper with gunmetal gunmetal gunmetal gun- gun metal ribs No less les than 16 tons of oC Iron and opal glass were used in inthe inthe inthe the construction of the tho dials The Clockwork itself weighs nearly three tons It is automatically driven b by an Battery without any finy attention or winding This battery was In In Installed stalled in 1911 fourteen Courteen years ago and has been in constant service since without any attention or re- re newels beyond tho the usual charging The Royal Liver building clock always shows the correct time as itis it itis itis is controlled by the Greenwich time signal which Is received at 10 A.M. A.M. A. A M. M t. t daily In the absence of the signal however the transmitter or master clock controlling the heavy mechanism would be capable of keeping time to Within approximate approximately ly one second per week |