Time and Cement

From The American Horologist magazine, January 1939

Time and Cement

The invention (patent No. 2,129,043) is the work of Peter Bortsch of St. Peter, a village near Graz, Austria. A rod from the clock to which a weight is attached is inserted in the freshly poured cement. As the clock unwinds the rod gradually sinks into the cement. When the cement has set the rod stops sinking and the clock automatically stops.

Court House Clock Vital

Albany, Ore. - A public furore over disposition of the Linn County Court House clock was stilled when county officials promised that a clock would be installed in the new court house to supplant the timepiece in the old building by which an estimated one-half of the town's residents told time daily.

The citizens also were informed their ears would not be subjected to the harsh notes of a new chime, as the old clock chime was removed and would be attached to the new clock to be installed.