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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER III
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The house was pulled down about forty years ago; but the entrance door, being of strong, hard wood, is still preserved.

The vicar adds that young Harrison would lie out on the grass all night in summer time, studying the details of his wooden clock.
Footnotes to Chapter III.
[1] Originally published in Longmam's Magazine, but now rewritten and enlarged.
[2] Popular Astronomy.

By Simon Newcomb, LL.D., Professor U.S.

Naval Observatory.
[3] Biographia Britannica, vol.vi.part 2, p.4375.

This volume was published in 1766, before the final reward had been granted to Harrison.
[4] This clock is in the possession of Abraham Riley, of Bromley, near Leeds.


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