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Updated: May 13, 2025
"You see, Christopher, we've all enjoyed having you round the store this winter," murmured McPhearson. "You've brought cheer to everybody. We shall miss you when you go back to school next season. Nevertheless we rejoice your eyes are on the mend and we wanted you to know how glad we are." "It was bully of you all simply bully!" burst out the lad.
And speaking of the striking part, you may like to know that the hour bell weighed thirteen tons and the four quarter-hour bells eight tons." "Isn't it the biggest clock ever made?" "It is probably one of the most powerful and most accurate of the large ones," nodded McPhearson, "although others are to be found with bigger dials.
McPhearson will soon get Seventeen into line, he says, an' I know you will, sir. Don't you always?" In the meantime Christopher had peeped inside the clock. "Why, look at the great lead weight!" ejaculated he. "Yes. Many old clocks had weights such as this, which were pulled up when the clock was wound and gradually dropped as the clock ran down.
McPhearson," announced he after recounting to the sympathetic Scotchman the doctor's decision. "If it weren't for you, I don't know what I'd do." "Pooh! Nonsense! Non sense! You'd find ways enough to amuse yourself without the help of an old fossil like me, I guess," blustered the clockmaker.
"Feel better?" interrogated McPhearson, anxiously. "I'm all right. There's not a thing the matter with me. The trouble is that the man opposite us was the chap who pinched that ring from Hollings." "Are you sure?" "Pretty sure. At any rate, it's worth tipping off headquarters. Where's there a telephone?" "There's a drug store just across the street, Christopher. But hold on!
I'll bet he was disappointed," came sympathetically from Christopher. "Think of his having to stay at home and miss the fun of seeing how his invention was working!" "It was pretty tough," agreed McPhearson.
"They were squealers all right!" derided his listener. McPhearson turned on him with twinkling eyes. "Listen to the sequel," continued he.
"I seldom see it in the evening," Christopher explained. "We are always starting out into the suburbs just when New York is beginning to wake up." "New York can hardly be called asleep at any time," McPhearson chuckled, "so I must take your lamentation with a grain of salt. But it is rather of a pity you shouldn't have had the chance to see that clock after dark.
Makers had, however, been convinced by this time that pendulums did not look well hanging down across the faces of clocks, and so they now put them at the back, their swingings being frequently concealed by projecting dials. So you see, the world was moving on." As he concluded this speech, McPhearson took off his working glasses, substituted for them another pair, and began packing up his tools.
"Now," went on McPhearson, "apparent solar time is dependent on the motion of the sun and is shown by the sundial; mean solar time, on the other hand, is shown by a correct clock; and the difference between the two or the difference between apparent time and mean time is technically known as the equation of time, and is set forth in a nautical almanac published by the government."
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