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Plato Clock also called a ticket clock

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=20070210&id=GJxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sAkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5597,4720242

Plato not in the patent. Patent number: 733180 Filing date: Apr 16, 1903 Issue date: Jul 7, 1903 http://www.google.com/patents/US733180

another clock in 1902: http://www.google.com/patents/US724460 (drawing is a plato clock)

Filed a patent for an invention "time-indicators or clocks or indicating devices in which plates or leaves are successively exhibited."

He filed a patent for a "time indicator' in 1901 http://www.google.com/patents/US715776

Fitch also filed typewriting machine patents.

Links:

http://sanjacinto139.homestead.com/TechEdpdf/PLATO_CLOCKS.pdf http://user1791690.sites.myregisteredsite.com/id6.html

http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/eugene-fitch-b-1846/

http://www.decopix.com/Lawson_Clocks_Part_I/

http://books.google.com/books/about/Eugene_L_Fitch_and_the_Plato_Clock.html?id=3sJ0HAAACAAJ

http://blog.onlineclock.net/history-of-digital-clocks-watches/

• American Electrical Novelty & Mfg. Co., 1904?, Advertising brochure. • Coleman, J. E. and Niehaus, James J., 1948, The Plato Gadget Clock With Turning Leaves, NAWCC Bull., December, pp. 516 – 519. • Terwilliger, Jr., Charles O., 1964, Plato Clock, NAWCC Bull., October, pp. 447 – 460.

NAWCC http://www.nawcc.org/index.php/watch-a-clock-bulletin

External links

• example.com