Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2014
Date 18-Apr
Volume 212
Issue 4,480
Page 574
Category Horology
Part
Title A World Sun Clock
Author Michael Lee
Notes Provides an interesting lesson in horology of the past. Acknowledgements, reference, introduction, design parameters, the upper World dial plate, lower dial plate, latitude and longitude adjustment, functional art, direction of the meridian, setting the dial for a chosen latitude, finding local noon by the sun, adjustments required for the Sun Clock to provide Greenwich Mean Time, observing GMT at chosen World locations, the sun clock in use as a navigation instrument, a further example, equipment, materials, safety equipment, etching, metal finishing and polishing, metal patination, establishing provenance of the project, conclusion