| 1771 - 454 pages
...Engineer, for Improvements applicable to clocks and other timekeepers for the purpose of indicating not only the time of day, but the day of the week, the month, and the year, which invention he intends to denominate " Hawes's Calendar Clock or Timepiece."—... | |
| Nicholas Murray - Europe - 1854 - 300 pages
...hour. Then commences a series of wonders. The twelve apostles pass in review before the Savior, wlio stands over them with uplifted hands. And a rooster,...Isaac Habrecht, in reference to whom many stories are ^old. It ran down, and got out of repair; and ifa years there was no mechanic that could repair it.... | |
| Baptists - 1875 - 444 pages
...motion, and as it recedes leaving them high and dry on the sands. The clock shows the hour of the day, the day of the week, the day of the month, the month of the year; and in the day of the month provision is made for the long and the short months. It shows the signs... | |
| D. M. Garret - Arithmetic - 1886 - 202 pages
...0 as the first letter in the cost, thus: write 75 cents cost, 1.00 selling price : J^. HOW TO TELL THE DAY OF THE WEEK, THE DAY OF THE MONTH, THE MONTH IN THE YEAR, THE AGE IN YEARS, WITHOUT ASKING A SINGLE QUESTION. PROCESS. Ask the person you wish to... | |
| Alfred Charles Smith - Europe - 1893 - 646 pages
...within ; and last, but not least, famous for its remarkable clock in the Town-hall, which tells you not only the time of day, but the day of the week, the day of the month, the age of the moon, and we know not what besides, not to mention that sundry figures come out when the... | |
| William Reginald Halliday - Divination - 1913 - 340 pages
...TroXiy, Kal 3 Aristotle, op. cit. 1 1 ; cf. Haherland, op. cit. p. 59. In W. Prussia, for example, not only the time of day but the day of the week affects the interpretation. Among the Magyars a great catastrophe follows a sneeze on Friday the first... | |
| American periodicals - 1899 - 996 pages
...door, double faced, with its great weights of Revolutionary cannon balls, designed by Jefferson to mark not only the time of day but the day of the week as well — the great clock with its gong to mark the hours, the strokes of which can be heard six... | |
| John Hastings Gwathmey - Counties - 1979 - 508 pages
...reminiscent of his inventive genius. The great clock in the front hall is operated by weights and pulleys and tells not only the time of day, but the day of the week. Preserved at Monticello is the telescope with which the aged statesman watched the progress of the... | |
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