Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — What Really Keeps Time. [ARTICLE]

What Really Keeps Time.

a measurer of time foe pendulum ranU today as foe most perfect of oar instruments, says thq Scientific American. It is the part of a clock that keeps time. AU foe rest of foe mechanism fa simply for the purpose of keeping up its vibration or to point oh a dial foe number of vibrationstt has mad*. It swings hack and forte th a complete arc 80 times each taka*Ute. «ritow. tab ewewbeel te move a cog at . each vibration, thus checkin* off on foe dial, by means Of the second hand, 80 seconds In h way, minutes and hoop are record*. and by a Uh* process a watch is :|ritad. ; ;