She drove up to the petrol station and asked the attendant for air for her tyres. “Your tyres seem to be up, lady,” the man said after testing them. “Maybe they are,” she replied, “but it’s six weeks since we had air put in last, and it’s bound to be bad by this time. I,like fresh air in my tyres.” In a little American backwoods town is a clock with no machinery except a face, hands, and a lever. The lever is connected with a geyser which shoots out an immense column of hot water every 38 seconds, each spout moving the hands forward 38 seconds. Since the spouting never varies by even the tenth of a second, the clock keeps perfect time.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1938, Page 3
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