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Show A v The Latest in T5ime ZSellers V i An Inventor of New Haven, Con-inectlcut. Con-inectlcut. Is making an effort to have 'the clock face that all humanity has Ibsen consulting tor centuries changed 'for one made sultablo tor the progressive progres-sive peoplo ot the twentieth century, la stating his objections to the present pres-ent system ot telling time the Inventor points out that there Is a bewildering, i brain trying number of figures which (are sever nocessary at one time for ono hour Indications on the faco ot the clock ot today, and ho further says that tome of theso figures aro right aids up 7ihlle others are upslds down, some repose on their tides, whllo othirs are placed at various angles This, as can bo readily seen, creatoa confusion and often renders It difficult to tell the exact tlmo at a glance-la glance-la the latest system thero are never more than four figures shown on tho dial ot the clock at onco, and they so Indicate the tlmo that no mistake is possible, and Indicate It so accurately that valuable minutes need never be lost. Under many ordinary circumstances circum-stances a minute over or under time will causo a great Inconvenience or trouble, but there aro many conditions when even the loss of few seconds means the loss of millions of money, or even the wrecking of lives. The Inventor by bis new system hss evolved not only a slngulsr time Indication Indi-cation for clocks, but be has also developed de-veloped clock mechanisms radically different from present practice, which will probably In a short while absorb much of the business In time Indicators and become tho standard system of the twentieth century. The Inventor says' "When the hour of the old-fashioned timepiece Is dang ling in one direction between VI and) H VII and the rolnuto hand Is losing It- H 'elf In another direction tomewhera H between XI and XII, tho new time- H piece will read simply and conclusively, H it. In another minute the last figure H magically disappears and 9 takes Its H place, and in alxty more seconds all the figures vanish and In their place H appear 7 00. To state the system clear- fl ly and tersely, time will be told as H the railroad time table tells It And M with the general Introduction of this H system would bo done away with such H bungling expressions entailed by the H old circular dial plato with Its wreath. H ot figure aa 20 minutes past S, 14 H minutes of 12. Instead we shall adopt H the crisp, accurate terminology ot tbo time table, and say nine twenty, elor- H en forty-six, etc The Invention haa H lately been patented . H THE TIME INDICATED UY THE NEW STYLE CLOCK IS 11.25.35 (St.1. SECOND DIAL) OH 25 MINUTES MR AND 35 SECONDS AFTER 12 O CLOCK. jgjfl: |