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    The Tower Clock and How to Make it - A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Construction of a Chiming Tower Clock, with Full Working Drawings Photographed to Scale
    The Tower Clock and How to Make it - A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Construction of a Chiming Tower Clock, with Full Working Drawings Photographed to Scale
    The Tower Clock and How to Make it - A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Construction of a Chiming Tower Clock, with Full Working Drawings Photographed to Scale
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    The Tower Clock and How to Make it - A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Construction of a Chiming Tower Clock, with Full Working Drawings Photographed to Scale

    By E. B. Ferson

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    This vintage book contains complete directions for making a chiming tower clock. With simple, clear instructions and complete working drawings, this volume will be of utility to those with an interest in making clocks and timepieces. "The Tower Clock and How to Make it" is ideal for those with little previous experience and would make for a valuable addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Specifications of the Clock", "The Time Train", "The Striking Train", and "The Shapes and Weights of Bells". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. First published in 1903.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateAug 25, 2017
    ISBN9781473339545
    The Tower Clock and How to Make it - A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Construction of a Chiming Tower Clock, with Full Working Drawings Photographed to Scale

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      The Tower Clock and How to Make it - A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Construction of a Chiming Tower Clock, with Full Working Drawings Photographed to Scale - E. B. Ferson

      BELLS

      PREFACE.

      A number of volumes might be written on the subject of clocks and bells, and their history. The subject matter is very interesting reading; but this is not a history of clock making. It is only a description of a clock which has been built for the University of Chicago by pupils of the Chicago Manual Training School, Boys ranging from 14 to 18 years of age. The theoretical and time calculations were made by the instructor; but the drawings, patterns and machine work are the work of the boys. The assembled drawings of the clock shown in Figs. 1 and 2, are the personal work of the whole Senior class of about 45 pupils, each one of whom had a particular part assigned to him; and after that part had been drawn in detail, it was put in its proper place in these drawings by the pupil who had made it, so that the assembled drawings are the composite work of the class.

      A part of our course in drawing and machine design is the designing and building of some machine, and this clock is one in a list of machines which includes steam engines from six to ten horse power, a heavy drill press, a steam hammer, a cutter grinder and numerous other machine tools for the

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