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NOVEL TIMING DEVICE IN ENGLAND LONDON, England, October 12. The latest contrivance for timing races in England is called the paceograph. It consists of a metal drum, whicli makes one revolution every three minutes, driven by clockwork. Around the drum a graph paper is placed marked out in small squares subdivided into fifths. Each square represents a second of time. Surmounting the drum is a telescope, the movements of which synchronize with a needle-pointed pen, wliich traces 011 the paper any horizontal movement made by the telescope. The machine not only records the minutes, seconds and fifths of seconds occupied by any race or trial gallop, but also shows the times taken for any section of it. A mile may be covered in lm. 40s., but the first five-eighths may have been accomplished in 58f. and the last three in 42s., or the horse may have shown terrific speed for three-quarters and died away to nothing in the last two. The paceograpl: will give a true record of the time occupied during any part of the spin. It is not intended to put the invention on the market.
