American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 255
. Mr. Clement had no sooner givena description of his escapement to the worldthan Dr. Robert Hooke, a celebrated mathe-matician of that period, whose father was awatchmaker in the Isle of Wight, claimedthat in the year 1666, fourteen or fifteenyears previous, he showed to the RoyalSociety a clock… … The recoiling escapement has, in its turn,been superseded by others where great ac-curacy is desired; still it is one by far themost extensively used in all countries inclocks intended for the ordinary purposes oflife. It is the prevailing escapement in thoseclocks having seconds pendulums and…
Clocks and watches
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