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NYGWPB.743.045
26 Sep 1743:32 (37)
Just imported from London; for the entertainment of the
curious and others, there is now to be seen in a large
commodious room at the house of Mr. Benjamin Kierstede, at
the sign of the Pine-Apple on the New Dock. Common price
1s. 6d. The Solar or Camera Obscura Microscope, invented by
the ingenious Dr. Liberkhun. . . [10 lines of description]
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. .
. [6 more lines] and is to be sold by the owner Mr. Edmund
Rising. The gentleman's stay in this place will be but
short.
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