Clocks.Thefirst Clock seen in Europe was a present from Haroun Alraschid to Charlemagne; and in the fourteenth century,Dondiof Padua was raised to the peerage for making one of an improved construction. The title, “Marquis Dondi del Orologio,” descended to the eighteenth century, and probably still exists.
Clocks.Thefirst Clock seen in Europe was a present from Haroun Alraschid to Charlemagne; and in the fourteenth century,Dondiof Padua was raised to the peerage for making one of an improved construction. The title, “Marquis Dondi del Orologio,” descended to the eighteenth century, and probably still exists.
Thefirst Clock seen in Europe was a present from Haroun Alraschid to Charlemagne; and in the fourteenth century,Dondiof Padua was raised to the peerage for making one of an improved construction. The title, “Marquis Dondi del Orologio,” descended to the eighteenth century, and probably still exists.