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History of Sundials

Why the Sun Dial keeps time

Developing and Making Sundials

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Sundial Hour Lines Lay out

Sundial "Furniture"

Declination Lines of Sundials

Portable Sundials

Interesting Sundials of the World

SUNDIAL MATERIALS - Page 14

THE HELIOCHRONOMETER The most accurate sundial made. Time may be obtained to within a few seconds. The commonest forms are the equatorial, half cylinder, and other types where the hours are marked in equal spaces on the surface of the sundial. Much originality can be used in their design, particularly in the arrangement of the mechanical parts. This type of sundial always attracts a great deal of interest wherever set up. They are essentially standard time sundials, and can generally be easily adapted to daylight saving time. Perhaps you can turn your present sundial into a heliochronometer by adding a vernier as described in the following Section. Further instructions are also given in Section VI. We urge their construction. When one builds a house or garden, everything must be just so; but look about you, in your neighbor's garden or on his house when it came to the sundial, which is often of great importance in the garden scheme, any old thing was put up. Don't blindly select a sundial to make or buy. The material out of which to fashion a sundial presents no problem to the craftsman; but if one is not endowed with a set of woodcarving and engraving tools he must select that which is best suited to his skill and the tools at hand.

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