DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1327#0366
| AN ILLUSTRATED CYCLOPIA 0V THE GEEAT EXHIBITION^ 1861.
THE HANDS AND 1TACE OP THE ELECTRIC CLOCK.
SHEPHERD'S ELECTRIC CLOCK.
AT THE GIttiAT liXHIBiTIOX 1SUILDIM-
J^ERY one who approached tho Great Exhibition Building from tho
South, remarked, and not a few were pulled by, tlie appearance of the
c|wk which, surmounted the principal entrance on that side. Some account
Phis clock will be equally interesting as a specimen of workmanship m
"* department of Horology, and a-> an application of the electric lluid as a
gn'liyc powei. But JU,st| it wiU be proper to speak of the external appear-
p »t this bgenious piece of workmanship as affixed to th^Crystal Palace.
Nf>. 24. Makch 13, 18i)2.
In adapting Mr. Shepherd's beautiful Electrical Clock to tho external design
of tl 10 building in Hyde Park, Mr. Owen Jones, to whom all matters of
ornament connected with tho building wove left, ingeniously contrived a
plan by which tho conventional form of a circle for tho face of tho clock
Wfla dispensed with, in order that the elevation of tho south end Of the
transept might not be disfigured.' In our Ulusiratiun, showing thy arrange-
ment of the hands and figures, it will be seen that the clock-face in the
present instance is a semicircle, having, a.-i usual, twelve divisions, and that
the figure 12 is, also us usual, at tho top of the circle. The numbers oorrea.-
THE HANDS AND 1TACE OP THE ELECTRIC CLOCK.
SHEPHERD'S ELECTRIC CLOCK.
AT THE GIttiAT liXHIBiTIOX 1SUILDIM-
J^ERY one who approached tho Great Exhibition Building from tho
South, remarked, and not a few were pulled by, tlie appearance of the
c|wk which, surmounted the principal entrance on that side. Some account
Phis clock will be equally interesting as a specimen of workmanship m
"* department of Horology, and a-> an application of the electric lluid as a
gn'liyc powei. But JU,st| it wiU be proper to speak of the external appear-
p »t this bgenious piece of workmanship as affixed to th^Crystal Palace.
Nf>. 24. Makch 13, 18i)2.
In adapting Mr. Shepherd's beautiful Electrical Clock to tho external design
of tl 10 building in Hyde Park, Mr. Owen Jones, to whom all matters of
ornament connected with tho building wove left, ingeniously contrived a
plan by which tho conventional form of a circle for tho face of tho clock
Wfla dispensed with, in order that the elevation of tho south end Of the
transept might not be disfigured.' In our Ulusiratiun, showing thy arrange-
ment of the hands and figures, it will be seen that the clock-face in the
present instance is a semicircle, having, a.-i usual, twelve divisions, and that
the figure 12 is, also us usual, at tho top of the circle. The numbers oorrea.-