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NYGWPB.743.058
17 Oct 1743:42 (40)
By desire of several gentlemen and ladies, the solar or
camera obscura microscope, which has given such general
satisfaction, and so great a concourse of gentlemen and
ladies continually attend to see it, is now removed to the
house of Mr. John Kip in Broad-street, where the sun will
serve all the day long. . . The unparallel'd Musical Clock,
made by that great master of machinery David Lockwood. This
great curiosity performs by springs only; it is a machine
incomparable in its kind; it excels all others in the beauty
of its structure, it is most entertaining in its musick, and
plays the choicest airs from the celebrated operas with the
greatest nicety and exactness. It performs beautiful graces,
ingeniously and variously intermix'd, the French-Horn
pieces, perform'd upon the organ, German and common flute,
flageolet, &c. as sonatas, concertos, marches, minuets,
jiggs and Scotch airs, compos'd by Corelli, Alberoni, Mr.
Handel, and other great and eminent masters of music. This
beautiful curiosity has been shewn twice before the King, in
his Royal Palace at St. James's, where his Majesty was
pleas'd to make an observation on the excellence of its
beauty, and declar'd, he thought it the wonder of this age.
It is allow'd by all who have seen it to be more worthy to
adorn a King's palace than of being expos'd for a common
sight. The inside of this machine may be view'd by gentlemen
and ladies, and is to be seen from eight in the morning till
eight at night. Note, This is the last week of shewing the
above curiosities.
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