RIGHT TIME ALL THE TIME

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 15 February 1935, Page 12

RIGHT TIME ALL THE TIME

({REENWICH time will be placed "on the telephone " as a result of. an invention by telephone engineers,’ who have designed a "talking clock. which will speak the time’ to anyone telephoning it. The new clock will be allocated its own number, and it is to be Synchronised by Greenwich Observatory. Callers will hear a cultured voice say: "Tt is now exagtly one hour three minutes nine seconds," or whatever the time may be. The clock works on the same principle* as. a "talkie" cinema’s projector. Two glass plates carry strips of sound film in concentric rings. One plate carries the sound tracks for the minutes and the other the tracks for the hours, seconds and the voice ‘which speaks the preliminary words. By using mechanically-operated ‘shutters instead of switches much better reproduction is obtained, Paris already has a talking clock which earns thousands of pounds per year. ‘Two Leeds cluckmakers recently invented a clock which announces the time over the telephone every: two-minutes, |