Excerpt from The Tower Clock: Designed and Made for the University of Chicago
The clock was designed from a purely mechanical stand point and without any preconceived or sentimental ideas, but simply as a machine to keep time, the object being to do the work accurately with the least possible number of parts and those parts of the simplest form. F Or the reasons above stated it was decided to build the clock as three separate machines to be mounted on a common bed-plate.
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Excerpt from The Tower Clock: Designed and Made for the University of Chicago
The clock was designed from a purely mechanical stand point and without any preconceived or sentimental ideas, but simply as a machine to keep time, the object being to do the work accurately with the least possible number of parts and those parts of the simplest form. F Or the reasons above stated it was decided to build the clock as three separate machines to be mounted on a common bed-plate.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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