Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1899 — A Wonderful clock. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful clock.

A remarkable mechanical clock has recently Wen completed by M. Noll, after five years of uninterrupted work. The clock, which is of enormous size, weighs 4,000 kilogrammes, and the whole of the works have been made by hand. It is built to represent a church, and there are forty-six mechanical figures, which go through various evolutions. The clock indicates the seconds, minutes, quarters, hours, days, weeks, mouths, seasons, and the years, together with the movable or fixed feasts for the next 104 years. Every hour the twelve apostles make their appearance, march past, and bow before the Savior, who bestows his benison on them.