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July 18, 2011 06:36 am PDT
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Educated clock chimed dirges for America's martyrs throughout the day
70 year old Marvin Shearer, a "crippled inventor" from Akron, OH, spent the decade from 1920 to 1930 building an "educated clock" that chimed a different tune to commemorate "America's martyrs" around through the day, for example, "e time of President McKinley's burial is marked by a playing of the old hymn, 'Lead, Kindly Light.' At the hour of President Garfield's interment, the remarkable timepiece plays 'Gates Ajar.'" Educated Clock Sings, Talks, and Plays the Pipe Organ (Jul, 1934)...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hqgEcPG8Lok/educated-clock-chime.html
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