A WONDERFUL CLOCK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10076, 23 June 1910, Page 4

A WONDERFUL CLOCK.

Most people have an idea that the most wonderful clock in the world i is at Strasburg, but according to an American writer, the distinction of possessing that faorological treasure belongs not to any Old World city, but to New York. It is situated in or near the top of the Metropolitan Tower in Madison Square, which rises 700 feet above the street. The dials axe 26ft 6in in diameter, with numerals 4ft high and minute-marks 10£ inches across. The hands, driven by an electric motor, are respectively 17ft and 13ft Sin long, and together weigh 17001bs. The four bronze bells, constituting the hour strike and the chimes, have an aggregate weight of 13,5001b5, and the lantern which signals the time at night is equipped with red and white incandescent lamps of an aggregate candlepower of over 22,000. The clock system includes, besides the four tower dials, hundreds of other secondary clocks distributed throughout the offices of the building. All of this mighty equipment is actuated electrically, and controlled from a single masterclock, which is electrically self-winding, requiring no touch of human hands from one year's end to the otber. At night the great clock announces the huurs with a white flash of light for each stroke of the hour, and red flashes for the quarters. On a clear night these signals are readable over a radius of fifteen miles. i