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908 ILLUSTRATED WORLD
ELECTRICAL CLOCK
THIS little clock, kept near the bed at
night, gives quite a comfortable
feeling, when one wakes up in the middle
of the nieht.
No Need to Lie
and Wonder
Whether the
Single Stroke of
the Hall Clock
Means One
O'clockorHalf-
Past Twelve.
When This
Clock Is Near
Just by pressing a button, the face of
the clock is lighted up, or darkened.
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"TOUCH-A-BUTTON" GAS-
RANGE LIGHTER
A
WORTH-WHILE accessory to a
gas range is a lighting arrangement
which can be installed in a few minutes
and which is ready thereafter to light
any one of the open-flame burners by
the touch of a button. A little pilot light,
consuming so little gas that it is not
This Device
Eliminates the
Necessity for
Matches on the
Kitchen Range
noticed in the gas bill, burns at the center
of the set of burners. Its casing has
holes in the sides, through which, when
a button is pressed, a line of flame darts
toward the burner to be used, the valve
opens, and the burner is lighted. Exit
matches with their dangers!
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ROOF PITCH FINDER
A FOLDING instrument which meas-
^"^ ures the angle from the horizontal
and the inches of pitch to the horizontal
foot is now being offered by an eastern
inventor. The device, when open, consists
of radial arms and an arc, the whole
frame resembling a cut of pie. Pivoted
at the center, or "point of the pie", is
a pointer arm bearing a spirit level.
When the owner of the instrument desires
to know the pitch of a roof or any
Placed on Any Roof, This Appliance Shows Immediately
the Angle of Deviation from the Horizontal,
and the Inches of Pitch to the Horizontal
Foot
sloping surface, he rests one edge of the
"pie" on the surface, moves the pointer
up until he centers the spirit level
bubble, and under the pointer on the
circular edge will be the figures giving
the pitch in degrees, and the number of
inches measured along the surface that
would be set off by perpendiculars rising
from either extremity of a line a foot
long set beneath the surface. When not
in use, the instrument folds up into compact
form in such a way that the spirit
level is surrounded by the different metal
parts and thus completely protected.