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 diagram of a table saw, designed and drawn by John Muir. |
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Description: | Drawing of John Muir's invention, the student desk clock, scale 3 inches per foot. The clock lighted his lamp and fire and opened the right book for him to... |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | A sketch of mechanical parts for an invention. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | A sketch of a thermometer. Quoting from Muir's autobiography "My Boyhood and Youth" he described the thermometer as "made of an iron rod, about three feet ... |
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". |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | A John Muir sketch of a fancake draught of sawframe with crankshaft in position. Scale two inches per foot. Depth of frame 5 1/2 inches. Speed of cranks... |
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