204 



Popular Science Monthly 



The watch in the center is the largest in the 

 world. At the left below is an ordinary-sized 

 watch and on the right the smallest ever made 



The Largest and the Smallest Watches 

 in the World 



THE ordinary watch is a simple, com- 

 fortable time-piece to be dropped 

 negligently into a convenient pocket and to 

 be referred to casually and without incon- 

 venience. But all watches are not thus 

 easily handled. The largest watch in the 

 world, for instance, could hardly be carried 

 conveniently at the end of a fob, since it 

 weighs one hundred and fifteen pounds, 

 while the smallest watch in the United 

 States could be easily lost, in a 

 vest-pocket of change, since it is 

 scarcely larger in circumference 

 than a dime. Aside from their 

 unusual sizes, these big and 

 little watches differ in no 

 respect from their broth- 

 ers of normal development. 

 They keep excellent time and 

 perform in all respects as an 

 orderly, well balanced time- 

 piece might be expected to do. 



The watches, contrasted 

 here, were built originally for 

 advertising purposes. 



The smallest watch has a 

 diameter of only seven-tenths 

 of an inch, and a circumference 

 of two and one-fifth inches. 



Its weight is .113 ounce Troy. The big 

 brother of the smallest watch weighs one 

 hundred and fifteen pounds; it has a diame- 

 ter of seventeen inches and a circumference 

 of fifty-three and two-fifths inches. Both 

 watches are stem-winders, though to wind 

 the smallest one it is necessary to use a 

 pair of little tweezers. 



The larger watch has twenty-three 



jewels, 

 dollars. 



It cost more than ten thousand 



Directing Newport's Traffic from a 

 Portable Platform 



TRAFFIC Policeman Freeborn Cogge- 

 shell, of Newport, R. I., has solved the 

 traffic stand problem all by himself. He 

 has constructed a platform which meets the 

 peculiar conditions of the difficult post he 

 holds, which is situated in a five-cornered 

 plaza to which traffic converges at an 

 average of twelve hundred vehicles of all 

 descriptions an hour. 



Two streets have a grade of about thirty- 

 five degrees, and all are narrow and dan- 

 gerous. Only at one point may a police- 

 man stand in order to have a clear view to 

 regulate traffic, and there it is that Police- 

 man Coggeshell and his platform are 



located. 



Since Cogge- 

 shell has been 

 directing "itraffic 

 in the square he 

 has stopped 

 one hundred and 

 three runaways. 

 That is the main 

 reason he has 

 equipped his 

 platform with a 

 mirror to show 

 him what takes 

 place behind 

 him. In the 

 mirror he ob- 

 tains a view of 

 the square and 

 several streets. 

 The umbrella 

 insures a most 

 welcome protec- 

 tion from the 

 sun, rain, and 



The policeman 

 wheels his platform 

 to the point at 

 which all five streets 

 cross, and with the 

 aid of a mirror 

 watches the traffic 

 in every direction 



snow. In stormy weather a burlap 

 apron is fastened around the stand to 

 protect the officer. When the day's 

 work is done Coggeshell wheels his 

 platform to a nearby store. 



