Metropolitan Improvements
Anon
Genre: | Reportage, Drollery |
Subjects: | Time, Instruments, Instrument-makers |
Reports on how Edward J Dent, the 'celebrated chronometer', transformed a statue of King George III in Pall-Mall, into a clock. Notes that the king's 'pig-tail' 'pendulates' in two perpendicular directions for slow and quick time. | |
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