Empire Clock.
Considerable interest has been aroused by an announcement in the Court Circular that Mr. J. Haddon Overtoil, of Haddon Place, Park street, Woodstock, has had the honor of showing his Empire clock to the King, and explaining its mechanism, in which his Majesty displayed the keenest interest. His Majesty expressed himself highly delighted with the clock, and referred to its great educational value. The King ordered one of the clocks., and directed Lord Knollys to forward it from Buckingham Palace to Windsor. For two years the inventor has been at work on the device. Its principal intention is to enable the time to be told at any moment in any part of the globe. The invention consists of an Bin terrestrial globe, inclined 23£deg., which completes one revolution on its axis in 24 hours, in the same direction as the earth itself turns. Parallel with the equator is a fixed ring dial, having the 24 hours and sub-divisions engraved on it. The meridians of longitude are 15deg. apart. Any meridian being adjusted to its own mean time, all the other meridians denote their own mean time, and each meridian will continue to do this correctly the whole of the 24 hours.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 595
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203Empire Clock. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 595
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