The Tower Clock

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Excerpt from The Tower Clock: Designed and Made for the University of Chicago The clock was designed from a purely mechanical stand point and without any preconceived or sentimental ideas, but simply as a machine to keep time, the object being to do the work accurately with the least possible number of parts and those parts of the simplest form. F Or the reasons above stated it was decided to build the clock as three separate machines to be mounted on a common bed-plate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.