Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1930, Page 134

ANDIES OF THE EARLY I8™ CENTLRY FREQUENTLY WORE TWO WATCHES ON FOBSs. 6™ CENTURY WATCHES “TTWERE BETTER ORNAMENTS THAN TIME-KEEPERS.—™ °© HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY = @z HAVE BEEN MADE INTHE 10™ CENTURY BY A MONK NAMED CIERBERYT, ~ 1T WAS,DOUBTLESS AVERY CRUPE CONTRIVANCE. N 1581 GAL! AN ASTRONOMER , DISCONERED THE PRINCIPLE OF THE'PENDULUM BY STUDVING THE SLIGHT, SWINGING MOTION OF A CHANDELIERAN TRIE CATHEDRAL OF PISA. » ’ B e e .N 1762 JONN MARRISON, AN ENGLISHMAN, MADE A WATCH THAT KEPT TIME SO ACCURATELY THAT HME WAS AWARDED A PRIZE OF $100,000BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. — // HER MEN BEGAN MAKING AND IMPROVING CLOCRS. THE FIRST CLOCKS WERE RUN BY WEIGHTS ON CHAINS THAT COUNTER-BALANCED EACH OTHER. TER, GALILEO'S SON APPLIED A PENDULUM TO A CLOCK,, BUT PENDULUM CLOCKS DIP> NOT COME INTO GGENERAL USE FOR A LONG TME . — OR MANY YIEARS WATCHMES WERE WOUND WITH A KEY. THE KEY WAS FINALLY SUPER- CEDED BY THE STEM-WINDER . THE LADIES @85 WATCH IN THE "WASP WAIST" AND PUFFED SLEEVE ERA -1905 in THE 14TH CENTURY DE VICK, A GERMAN CLOCKMAKER, INVENT- ED THE "ESCAPEMENT, THE DEVICE THAT RETARDS THE RELEASE OF THE MOTIVE POWER AND MAKES THE TICKING SOUND- - N 1500 PETER HENLEIN, A “MASTER CRAFTSMAN OF NUREMBURG, GERMANY,MADE THE FIRST WATCH. BEAUTIFULLY WROUGHMT, BUT AWK- WARD TO CARRY,MENLEIN'S WATCHES WERE CALLED "NIREMBURG EGGsS. 'o THE SKILLED WATCHMAKERS OF SWITZERLAND> AND FRANCE WE ARE INDEGTED FOR THE FIRST THIN WATCHES. (Copyright, 1930, by J. Carroli Mansfield) A HE WORLD WAR EVERYBODY WEARING WRIST-WATCHES 7o 1 e By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD. qg ANOTHER HUNDRED VEARS CKS WERE TELLING THE TIME FROM THE TOWERS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS ANP CHURCHES N MANY EUROPEZAN CITIES, ——< HE FIRST WATCHES LIKE THE CLOCKS OF THAT DAY, IHAD ONLY AN HOUR HAND.THE MINUTE HAND 1S A COMPARATIVELY MODERN ADPDITION. HEMLEIN IS ALSO CREDITED WITH THE INVENTION OF THE MAINSPRING. ° .T REMAINED FOR AMERICA ,WITH HER IDEAS OF MASS PRO- DUCTION,TO GIVE THE WORLD CHEAP BUT Gool> TIMEPIECES. TODAY WE ARE WIT- NESSING NEW MIRACLES IN TELLING TIME,— CLOCKS THAT ARE ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED WATCHES THAT WIND THEMSELVES, H AND THE ANNOUNCEMIENT OF i "THE TIME OVER THE RADIO. 4§ ~z