File FRE/01/008 - "Clock Miscellany" scrapbook: volume 8

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FRE/01/008

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"Clock Miscellany" scrapbook: volume 8

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  • 1960s (Creation)

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1 bound scrapbook in a folder

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(1889–1966)

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37 pages. Includes giant floral clock of Frankfort, Kentucky; astronomical clock at Strasbourg; article on mental clocks "So that's why women are always late..."; 30-hour Tompion clocks; water clocks; Geneva's new automatic clock; turret clock at Lockinge; 93-dial Wonder Clock at Washington Museum; Synchronome clock factory; Tompion clock in Bath Pump Room; Dover Castle clock; "Collecting Old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Edward East, watchmaker to Charles I; sixteenth to eighteenth century table clocks; "Clocks by Thomas Tompion in American Collections"; clocks of Austria, Holland and Germany; clocks of New Zealand, etc.

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