Word: spools
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...during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open the draft, all in a jiffy and without extra charge. P - has resolved to outdo this arrangement, and is now engaged on a machine to go by electricity, to be connected with a thermometer and regulate...