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Filter: Creator Name of Muir, John
Filter: Subject of inventions
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Sketch of John Muir's clock design.The built clock was a combination of scythes, wheels and arrows. A rough bough of burr oak was set upon a base incrusted... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A sketch of mechanical parts for an invention. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Watercolor illustration of a barometer designed by John Muir in his boyhood. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A watercolor illustration of a combined thermometer, hygrometer, barometer, and pyrometer. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Muir's illustration of a means to record time by use of a star. He titled the drawing "The star hand rising and setting with the sun all the year". |
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