A MONSTER TIME PIECE.
. The large clock at the English Houses of Parliament is the largest one in ihe '
world. The four dials in the clock are 22 feet in diameter. Every hs^minate the minute hand moves nearly 7 inches. The clock will go eight days and a half, and will only strike for seven and a half, thus indicating any neglect in winding it up. The winding-up of the striking apparatus takes two hours. The pendulum is 15 feet long; the wheels are cast iron; the hour-bell is 8 feet high, and 9 feet in diameter, weighing nearly 15 tons*, and the hammer alone weighs over 400 pounds. The clock strikes the quarter-honrs, and by its striking the short-band reporters regu^ late their labours. At every strike a new reporter takes the plane of the old one, while the first retires to write out the notes that he has taken during the previous 15 minutes.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4442, 31 March 1883, Page 2
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156A MONSTER TIME PIECE. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4442, 31 March 1883, Page 2
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