Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — A Watch's Tireless Mechanism. [ARTICLE]

A Watch's Tireless Mechanism.

The main wheel of a watch makes 1,460 revolutions in a year; the second or center wheel, 8,760: the third wheel, 70,080; the fourth wheel, 625,600; and the fifth or scape wheel, 4.731,860, The number of vibrations is 141,912,000 in a year. Alexander and Julius Caesar were both accustomed to whip their wives on the slightest provocation.