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Home > Objects, Curiosities & Antiquities > Clocks, Watches & Sundials
- Calendars, Almanacks, Wakes and Fairs
(Illustrated London Almanack, 1849)
- Interesting history of various types of calendar and time-recording devices.
- Quaint Clocks
(Godey's, 1873)
- Clocks, Past and Present
(Demorest, 1879)
- Our Clocks (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
- On the "various means employed" throughout history to keep a record of the divisions of night and day and the passage of time.
- Sun-dials, by S.F.A. Caulfeild
(Girl's Own Paper, 1892)
- Sun-Dials, by Warrington Hogg
(The Strand, 1892A)
- Sundials, by Warrington Hogg
(The Strand, 1893B)
- Watches in Many Odd Forms, as Used in Other Days, by H. Wood Smith
Chums, 1895)
- The Hourglass, by S.F.A. Caulfeild
(Girl's Own Paper, 1896)
- A Wonderful Clock
(Strand, 1901B)
- Created by William Jankowsky, a Brooklyn carriage-builder, "Not only does this clock keep correct time, but it has several sets of chimes, electric lights, a phonograph, a music-box, a procession of ecclesiastical figures, a couple of miniature breech-loading cannon, a gas warming device, an electric fan, and an alarm."
- An Old Castle and Its Sundials
(Girl's Own Paper, 1902)
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