1927 · Quartz Oscillator Timekeeping · Werk 784 von 1.871

A quartz crystal clock of 1927 on an oak table in a laboratory of a telephone company in New York, its oscillator a black crinkle-painted metal box forty centimetres wide, on its front two small round instrument faces, plain and dim, either side of a large round black knob, on top a tall clear glass dome over a small black holder with a round window, beside it an open black metal frame with brass gear wheels and a flat disc motor, braided cables running to a tall rack of glass valves, a hand in a white shirt sleeve with a sleeve garter turning the knob, lamplight from the left.