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"Ah, it is easily seen you did not live in early colonial days," smiled McPhearson. "A clock-jack, sonny, is a contrivance for roasting meat." "Roasting meat!" repeated the lad incredulously. "But what had a man of Willard's genius to do with roasting meat?" "Perhaps a good deal," the Scotchman answered.
"It was sometime between 1777 and 1780, as I told you, that Simon Willard came to Roxbury. But before he focused his entire attention on clocks he invented a clock-jack, and in 1784 with the approval of John Hancock, the General Court of Massachusetts granted him the exclusive right to make and sell the device." "And what, pray, is a clock-jack?" interrogated Christopher.
At any rate he was certainly familiar with the problems that entered into the cooking of the family dinner just how heavy and clumsy were the big, awkward clock-jacks imported from England, how costly they were, and all. So he took the matter in hand and invented a clock-jack that was much better than the imported one.
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