Word: telechron
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...approximately 20 years I have owned and used an electric alarm clock, made by the Telechron Co. of Ashland, Mass. This clock, when set for any hour of the 24, will ring daily at that time...
...General Electric says that its "new automatic alarm clock" is similar to the Telechron. Obviously, TIME forgot to set the alarm...
...bell, more than twice as big as those in St. Paul's or Memorial Hall, is one of the few in Cambridge still rung by hand. Harold R. Allen, sexton of the Church, rushes to the cellar every hour from nine to four o'clock and, when the electric telechron registers 15 seconds before the hour, he pulls hard on the slim bell rope which hangs through a hole in the ceiling. He has been going through this procedure for three years and feels strongly that there is such a thing as overdoing tradition. On the other hand, his bell...
...Langmuir clinched his argument by making an artificial botfly of solder (one centimetre long, one-half centimetre thick), whirling this on a string in such a way that he could time its velocity with a telechron clock. At 13 m.p.h. the path of the artificial fly was already a blur, at 26 m.p.h. it was barely visible, at 43 m.p.h. the direction of rotation could not be told, and at 64 m.p.h. the object was entirely invisible. Comparing the appearance of his artificial fly while in motion with Dr. Townsend's descriptions. Dr. Langmuir concluded that a good estimate...
Connected with each electric chronometer is a regular clock with an automatic adjuster. If the current should be shut off and the telechron fall behind, it is not reset in the ordinary manner, but the automatic adjuster makes it function at twice its normal speed until it has caught up with the regular clock...