This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
A clock so constructed that by gradually rolling down an inclined plane it shows the progress of time; the motion is communicated to the wheels by a weight, which revolve about the axis as the clock descends. A drawing and description of this machine is given in Emerson's Mechanics.
 
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