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" And this clock tells not only the time of day, but the day of the week, the day of the month, the month... "
Men and Things as I Saw Them in Europe - Page 214
by Nicholas Murray - 1854 - 285 pages
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The Repertory of patent inventions [formerly The Repertory of ..., Volume 21

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."—...
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Men and Things as I Saw Them in Europe

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....
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 29-31

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...
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How to Become Quick at Figures: Comprising the Shortest, Quickest, and Best ...

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...
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The Autobiography of an Old Passport: Chiefly Relating how We Accomplished ...

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...
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Greek Divination: A Study of Its Methods and Principles

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...
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The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture, Volume 5

Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1917 - 858 pages
...o'clock in the morning, he found time to read and study. Moreover, he invented a wooden clock that told not only the time of day but the day of the week and the month of the year. Out of the iron end-rod of an old wagon he made a thermometer, the expanding...
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Munsey's Magazine for ..., Volume 20

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...
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Automobile Seat Belts: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Special Subcommittee on Traffic Safety - Automobiles - 1957 - 306 pages
...ACCIOENT ( JfcKfcM J<« J . MtJWf. Mr/MB. lot* 15 FIGUBB 2 Note II — Enter the complete date, including the day of the week, the day of the month, the month, and the year. EXAMPLES: Thursday. 1 December 1955; Tuesday, 24 January 1956. Note 12 — State the...
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Twelve Virginia Counties: Where the Western Migration Began

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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