 ... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty...  The Spectator - Page 2771729Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...these needles, made a kind of dialplate, inscribing it with the four-andtwenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | Charles Maybury Archer - Anecdotes - 1848 - 292 pages
...of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters — in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment so as to touch any of the... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...these needles, made a land of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dialplate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...possessed of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could move round without impediment, so as to point to any of... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - Railroads - 1850 - 256 pages
...of these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters — in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment so as to touch any of the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 594 pages
...these needles, made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the...dial-plate ; they then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such a manner that it could move round without Impediment, so u to touch any of the... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 794 pages
...made a kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters, iu the same manner as the hours uf the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner, that it could more round without impediment, so .is to point to any... | |
 | 1850 - 890 pages
...kind of dial-plate, inscribing it with twenty-four letters, in the same manner as the hours of tho day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of those plates in such a manner, that it could move round without imjH*dinient, so as to point to any... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 600 pages
...inscribing it with the four-and-twenty letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upou the ordinary dial-plate ; they then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates, in such a manner that it could move round without impediment, so as to touch any of the... | |
 | England - 1851 - 776 pages
...needles, made a kind of dialplate, inscribing it with four-andtwenty letters, in the same mauner that the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed the needles on each of these plates, in such a mauner that it could move round without impediment,... | |
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