Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-09-17 | Page 6 | Primitive "Timepieces"

Primitive "Timepieces." One of Hie most primitive time recording re-cording devices employed by the Chinese Chi-nese and Japanese was a knotted wick about two feet In length which smol-dered smol-dered vvllhout breaking into llano, and Indicated the passage of an hour by the tune consumed In burning between two knotsx King Allied Is credited with having established a svsteui whereby twelve Inch wax candles worn divided Inlo equal distances: relatively a third of an hour being required to burn an inch A candle of this typo, bill only ten inches In length. Is exhibited ex-hibited III Iho collection In M- Wiuili-litglon Wiuili-litglon museum.