Clocks: faces (top), and mechanisms (below) of a Ferguson (right), and a Smeaton-Franklin clock (left). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

Date:
1 January 1810
Reference:
40892i
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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

Publication/Creation

London : J. Wilkes, 1 January 1810.

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 20.3 x 18 cm

Lettering

Horology. Improved clocks. ; J. Pass sculp. Bears number: XI

Reference

Wellcome Collection 40892i

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