American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 202
sating weight along withit. It is objected to this method that it is notcontinuous; yet the whole motion, not beingmore than the thickness of paper, is so small thatthis and other compensations upon the sameprinciple appear to have been quite successful. Another class of balances may be… … bending upward by an increase of temperature,so that if the weights were merely set upon theupright stems arising from the ends of the bar,they would approach the axis of revolution;but, instead of these stems rising from the armitself, they are set upon secondary compoundpieces, c, of staple…
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