 ... 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
 | 1873 - 176 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 manner that it could move round without impediment so as to touch any of the... | |
 | Aaron Goodrich - America - 1874 - 426 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 as to touch any of the... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1876 - 536 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 ordinary dial plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could... | |
 | William Tegg - Postal service - 1878 - 362 pages
...began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and 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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1879 - 588 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 as to touch any of the... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1879 - 446 pages
...one 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 ordinary dial plate. They then fixed one of the needles in each of these plates, in such a manner that it could... | |
 | William John Johnston - Telegraph - 1880 - 288 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...dialplate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could be moved round without impediment so as to touch any of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 532 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 ordinary dial plate. They then fixed one of the needles on earch of these plates in such a manner that it could... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 202 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... | |
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