Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Long-Period Clocks. [ARTICLE]

Long-Period Clocks.

Herr Noll, a mechanician of Berlangen, Germany, has constructed a clock warranted to run for 9,oooyears without winding. Mr. D. L. Golf, in this country, has in his hail an oldfashioned clock which, so lpng as the house is occupied, never runs down. Whenever the front door is opened or closed the winding arrangements of the clock, which are connected with the door by a rod with gearing attachments, are given a turn, so that persons entering or leaving the housekeep the clock constantly wound up. Mr. T; G. Farrer of Fresno, Cal., invented a clock, the only motive power of which, he alleges, is the gravitation of the earth, which keeps the clock running forever without winding. This clock consists of a plate glass dial suspended from the ceiling, and all the parts of it that are visible are the two hands, the pivot on which they swing and the dial. In 1840 Mr. J. Smith, Leeds, England, constructed a. clock, the sole motor of which was-- electricity. He lived to see this clock go for.fifty years. Clocks are now made to run five years with one winding up. In 1881 the Belgian Government placed one of these in a railway station and sealed it with the government seal. It is said to have kept capital time, having only been twice wound—in 1886 and 1891. There is a clock in the church of St. Quentin, Mayence, which is said to have stopped only once during a period of 500 years.— Brooklyn Eagle.