I decided to put the tablet and phone away for a few hours and put some actual wood in the fireplace on a snowy midwestern Saturday... we have several (19) volumes of the “Book of Knowledge” circa 1912. I found some interesting “facts” within.
- Do people live on the moon? Probably not, but we cannot see one side of it.
- Do we have enough radium to melt the North Pole? No, but we will figure that out because we will need the space up there for our growing population...
- How to use a watch as a compass. Looks like it would work, except we need the sun for that. We have not seen the sun yet in 2020 (it seems).
- Some very cool ways to tell time with candles, hemp, etc..
- Very nice illustrations of watches, clocks and how to tell time (at the college where I teach I am realizing that some kids cannot tell time unless it is digital or on a phone...)
- Enjoy these illustrations!

 

To this day the Breitling watch manuals show how to use the watch to find south. Your referenced watch compass

 

I like how it is how “MEN” measured time

 

I like how it's assumed that someone cannot tell time yet is able to read the "How to tell time by the clock" article.

 

We had a Book of Knowledge very much like that when I was little.

 

this is not as strange as it may seems.

In my career as a soldier and in the public service I've met many people who can't use a clock dial to tell the time but are capable of reading sometimes quite intricate operations manuals.

 

Had a boss at work buy 2 clocks extra than needed then putting them up as time zone clocks at work even though 3 states (NSW, ACT, VIC) have the same time all year round.
Then took 10 minutes of myself and other staff explaining he just could have labeled the three states under one clock instead of having 3 clocks with the same time before he understood it.

 

Only THREE States on AEDT?

Your two headed cousins will be affronted.

 

Jim, everyone forgets about Tasmania and their clock would be 1996 time anyway

 

Warning to the Aussies in this thread: the watch-compass trick only works like that in the northern hemisphere. Down-under you have to point the 12 at the sun; then a line drawn half-way between the 12 and the hour hand points north.

Consequently, if you have one of these down under, the N stands for NOT NORTH.

 

I have a friend in the Navy (31 years old), he said many of the new recruits can’t read a map- they are use to using sat nav. They will have to teach cartography again...I can’t imagine not being able to open a road atlas and have no clue what I am looking at.

 

Had to wait for this watch to come out in the Southern Hemisphere edition. First one was only Northern Hemisphere


It’s easy at night with the southern cross being southern.

 

Oliver Cromwell's pocket watch.
http://www.wiglaf.org/aaronm/travel...-British Museum-Gold Puritan Watch31.jpg.html

 

Amazing!

 

From the same books... circa 1911-12 No WIFI is one thing that is wrong! We cannot see what brand of watch she is wearing...