Queer French Clocks Celebrate World War
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Queer French Clocks Celebrate World War
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Queer French Clocks Celebrate World War
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M. Boulat, a French clockmaker with a taste for the fantastic. has become noted for his unusual timepieces.
One, which he calls "L'Horloge des Al-lies," or the "Clock of the Allies," has a small figure representing a German soldier, caught by the seat of his trousers. Once an hour, while figures representing the allied generals look on, the mechanism winds up a string attached to the German, and then releases him, to fall into a vat labeled "sauerkraut." Another queer clock conception shows a globe studded with stars, and a large sun, the latter bearing the clock face. At the top of the globe is a happy-faced moon representing the German ex-kaiser. A comet, which represents Marshal Foch and is traveling around the rim of the globe, knocks the kaiser off his perch, and he disappears behind the clock, to reappear at the bottom as a sad-faced moon, when the operation is repeated. Still a third one, which he has named the "Branch clock," is constructed of parts made from a single tree branch and a spool of thread, wound up around a framework so that it resembles a loop aerial for a radio receiver. Even the gong on which the hours are struck by a wooden mallet is carved out of the same kind of material.
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eng
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1927-09
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391
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Alberto Bordignon
Popular Mechanics, v. 48, n. 3, 1927
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