Rum Raisin Ice Cream (1939); Texas Weiners (1924); Chess Clock (1899)

[Imran Ghory]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> CHESS CLOCK
>
>   OED has 1888 for "chess timing clock" (in brackets), then 1905.

A good place to look for an antedating would be the US Patent
Office archive, as Amandus Schierwater was awarded a patent on a chess
clock in 1884.

(Unfortunatly the USPTO's website requires a tiff-plugin (which I don't
have installed) to view it's online archive)

Imran
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