20 Answers in One. Mr. J. Nowlan with his remarkable "Clock." Mr. J. Nowlan, 41-year-old paint-laboratory chemist, has, after four yeas work, designed and built a giant machine which, at a glance, can show the following: time, day, date, month, year and season; sunset, sunrise, moonset, moonrise. Moon's phases, date of next eclipse and known shooting stars; state of tides at any of the coastal towns in Britain; whether they are flown, ebbing, high or low; the time anywhere in the world; and advanced astronomical data including the stars that are visible overhead at any given moment. Mr. Nowlan, besides being a chemist, is interested in physics, astronomy, electrics and photography. September 5, 1949. (Photo by Fox).