Designing a clock has always been a challenge. A seventeenth-, eighteenth-, or early nineteenth-century clock had a swinging pendulum. The case had to be large enough to allow the pendulum to swing. The nineteenth century was a period of invention…
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Popeye was a comic figure who first appeared in 1929. He is still one of the most popular images of the past 100 years. He originally appeared in a comic strip called Thimble Theater and was Olive Oyl's boyfriend. In…
Time was not as important in past centuries as it is today. Wristwatches did not come into general use until World War I. The large clock on the town square or in a barber shop or hardware store was the…