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1774, Assembly of the Blackboy clock on Kendrick Street
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Paul Hawkins Fisher described the assembly of the clock in Notes and Recollections of Stroud (1871):
"In the house immediately below the passage, John Miles, a watchmaker, formerly lived; and on the front of it he set up a clock, having a large dial-face, and the figure of a n****- boy with a bell before him, on which he sounded the hours with a club. This, it is believed, was the greatest noise, actual or metaphorical, the watchmaker ever made in the world. But he boasted of vast mechanical abilities; and told the writer, then a youth, that he possessed the secret of perpetual motion: and when standing with him at his door, he pointed to a heavily-laden timber-carriage, with a long team of horses passing up the street, and said he could construct a machine that would take up the carriage, timber and horses, throw them into the air, and turn them round for ever and ever! As may be supposed, this foolish boast had an effect on the writer’s young mind contrary to what was intended; for it convinced him that Miles was ignorant both of the proper objects of mechanical science, and of the laws of matter and motion which regulate and determine its power."
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- Stroud
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- 1774
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- Internet Archive - Paul Hawkins Fisher, Notes and Recollections of Stroud, Gloucestershire (1871)