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IT has always been a matter of surprise that the Americans can produce their well-known eight-day clocks in such large quantities, so uniformly good for ordinary purposes, and at such very moderate cost. Their general efficiency is proved by the increasing demand for them; not only are they sold in the American made cases, but separate movements are extensively imported and cased in England. One of the largest firms by which they are produced, that of Seth Thomas and Co., at Thomaston, Conn., has recently introduced a library or office clock of very moderate cost, one form of which is shown in the accompanying figure. This consists of the ordinary eight-day striking movement supplemented by an interesting and ingenious mechanism for operating the calendar; by its means not only the month and day of the week and month are indicated as in ordinary calendars, but the several months have their allotted number of days, an additional day being given to February in leap-year. Of course contrivances for effecting this object have long been known, but they always add so materially to the cost that they are prevented from coming into general use.
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A New Calendar Clock . Nature 20, 35–36 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020035b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020035b0