p. 11 | The World’s Largest Clock

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 1, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 27.

The World’s Largest Clock

It is not long ago that the largest clock in the world was in London. That was exceeded a few years back by a twenty-five-foot dial on the Philadelphia City Hall. Now that has been far surpassed by a clock erected on the Colgate Soap Company's factory at Jersey City, which has a dial thirty-eight feet in diameter by day and forty by night; that is, the periphery of the day-time dial is rows of electric lights which show only by night. The hour-and-minute-hands are fifteen and twenty feet long respectively. The minute-hand weighs with its counterpoise 640 pounds; every half minute its tip moves eleven and one-half inches, and in the course of a day travels the distance of more than half a mile.