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Lowne Electric. An English oak battery-electric master clock, circa 1903
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Lowne Electric. An English oak battery-electric master clock, circa 1903

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Lowne Electric. An English oak battery-electric master clock, circa 1903
The movement with gridiron pendulum with brass-cased bob, numbered 671, a plaque on the back board inscribed PHONE LEE GREEN 0143/LOWNE ELECTRIC/CLOCK/BOONES ST. LEE/S.E.13; and
A MAHOGANY SLAVE DIAL, the replaced dial inscribed LOWNE ELECTRIC/CATFORD.S.E. -- 15 in. (38 cm.) diameter (2)
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, Antiquarian Horological Society, 1976, pp.58-59; Crum & Keller ed., 150 Years of Electric Horology, NAWCC Chapter 125, 1992, p.43.
A pioneer of electrical timekeeping, Robert Mann Lowne (1840-1924) formed Lowne Clock and Appliance in 1903. That year the company was contracted to supply a master clock system for the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. This system entailed a circuit system of over 6½ miles, with over 46 slave dials. It operated for over 30 years and the slaves were still in use in the 1970s.