Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1912 — Clocks Worked by Air. [ARTICLE]

Clocks Worked by Air.

Fans actuated by currents of air have from time to time been used as motors for running clocks. One, by Lepaute, Is In the Louvre, Paris. Benjamin Hanks of Litchfield county, Connecticut, patented one in 1783. In a more recent patent the weight la wound up by the current of air In a chimney which Is stopped by a selfacting brake as the weight pears the top of its course.