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| 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View of the gymnasium at Northwestern College. A staircase leads up the terraced hill to the brick building. |
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