American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 256
t their clock is the best in the wholetown or parish, although in some instancesthe mechanical execution of these sameclocks may be of the most wretched descrip-tion; and this circumstance proves in a forci-ble manner the superiority of clocks havinglong pendulums over those having shorterones,… … Germany and the South of Europe, and to alarge extent in those charmingly executedFrench mantle-piece clocks of modern con-struction. It is the escapement universallyadopted in our own irrepressible Yankeeclocks, which have won their way to popularfavor all over the American continent and al-.most…
Clocks and watches
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