The Colgate Factory Clock

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Stock #:438084
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: New York
State: New York (NY)
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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The largest clock in the world - on the roof o the Colgate Factory. This big clock faces the giant office buildings of downtown New York. Its dial is 38 feet in diameter and can be read easily at a distance of three miles, so that passengers on the incoming liners pick out the Colgate Clock as one of their first sights of New York. The next largest clock (on the Metropolitan Tower) is 26 1/2 feet in diameter, the Westminister Clock of London, 22 1/2 feet. The Colgate Clock weighs approximately 6 tons. The minute hand, 20 feet long, travels at its point 23 inches every minute; more than one-half mile each day. Thus the largest clock in the world quite properly is place on the roof of the largest factory of its kind in the world.

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