拍品 131
131
HOMAN, Glasgow

细节
HOMAN, Glasgow
A Homan's Solar Chronometer, the black-painted metal hemisphere with rod gnomon and one fixed and one sliding brass scale divided VII-XII-V, with minutes, months and days, on circular base -- 11¾in.(30cm.)high, circa 1915
出版
The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. XXII, No. 4, pp. 185-6, January 1912.

Clocks, Vol. 14, No. 10, p. 37, March 1992.

拍品专文

Homan designed and manufactured sundials in the early 20th century to enable the sundial to continue to provide its customary role as a regulator of clocks, especially in areas far from the electric telegraph. He produced several models of his mean-time sundials, yet they survive in few numbers.