Familiar Unknown
Did you know that the balance wheel of a clock travels approximately 4,000 miles per year. The minute hand passes the hour hand over 8,700 times per year and that' this pocket power plant will deliver 1/300,000,000 th part of one horse power. Also since creation the most tasked question in every language is "What time?"
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 261, 22 January 1941, Page 5
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58Familiar Unknown Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 261, 22 January 1941, Page 5
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