Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1903 — Drawing of a Clock’s Face. [ARTICLE]

Drawing of a Clock’s Face.

It is great fun to ask a company of boys and girls to draw the face of a clock dial by the position of the figto draw the letters IV instead of 1111 for four, and will forget, perhaps, that all the letters of the dial should stand with their base toward the center. It Is probable that most people read a clock dial by the position of the figures or letters and disregard the figures themselves. Some of the larger clocks now made for steeples have only a straight line at each hour place, and they serve their purpose admirably. It has been found, however, that, while most persons have no accurate knowledge of dials, any marked departure from the usual method of marking them is at once detected. A dial bearing IV instead of the four straight lines attracts everybody’s attention.