WONDER CLOCK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 255, 20 June 1932, Page 3

WONDER CLOCK

SWEDISH ENGINEER ACHIEVES GREAT MECHANICAL TRIUMPH. ENGYCLOPAEDIC TIME-PIECE. A clock said to be a marvel of technical construction has recently been completed by a Swedish engineer, David Olsson, employed at the Bofors arms and munition factory in Sweden. Besides showing the ofdinary time, it shows the real sun time, the course, rising and setting, and the relative~position of the sun and the moon. It also shows dusk and dawn, the phases of the moon, the year, .month, week, date and name of the day, besides a number of astronomic indications. * The clock also has a rotating star map showing the movements of the firmament, and two revolving glohes showing the exact hour in different parts of the world. In the lower part of the clock there is a radio apparatns with loud speaker and gramophone, both of which can be set automatically. The clock can also switch on or off the electric light, or set a coffee pot boiling at any given hour. At' the top of the clock the "back-to-the-horse" movement is expressed by a blacksmith in his smithy. A few minutes before every full hour a red glow appears in his hearth, the blacksmith then strikes the hour with his hammer on the anvil, and the red light disappears with his last blow. The entire mechanism functions without being touehed by a human hand with such accuracy that even the changes caused by a leap year are automically registered.