Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock (top), and a Ferguson clock (below). Engraving by J. Taylor.

Date:
1 January 1810
Reference:
40896i
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Clocks: a Smeaton-Franklin clock (top), and a Ferguson clock (below). Engraving by J. Taylor. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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These are unusual clocks: the Smeaton-Franklin has a single hand to indicate the hours and minutes, the Ferguson is a 24 hour clock which indicates high and low tides, and the phases of the moon

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London : J. Wilkes, 1 January 1810.

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1 print : engraving

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Horology. Clock. ; J. Taylor sculp. Bears number: XI

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Wellcome Collection 40896i

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