A TALKING CLOCK.
The newest timepiece which is shortly to be placed on the market actually calls out the hours, halfhours, and quarters, day and night, unless shut off, and will tell you the time to the minute any hour of the night if you press a little button at your bedside. The works of this remarkable clock actuate a stout belt which runs over a roll connected with a sounding-box. Upon this belt, or rather film, the hours, which have been recorded by a phonograph, are impressed by galvanisation on a copper plate. The mechanism which moves the hands is connected with the speaking device, and this with a funnel which reinforces the sound and projects it outward through a finely grated opening attached to the narrow side of the clock. At night a touch on a lever reduces the clock to silence. But if one wakes and yi.hestoknow the hour without striking a light, an easily found button is pressed and the clock immediately states the time.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1000, 3 June 1911, Page 4
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169A TALKING CLOCK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1000, 3 June 1911, Page 4
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