American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 251
rstood ;the simple fact is known, by repeated experi-ments, that if adjustment is effected for the ex-tremes of temperature,, the watch will gain inthe mean temperatures; and if adjusted to de-grees not extreme, when subjected to extremes itwill be found to lose. From this it will be seenthat… … The adjustment of marine chronometers isnot as difficult as the adjustment of pocketwatches, for the reason that its size makes itmore convenient to handle, and also the com-pensation weight is a movable slide upon thebalance rim, which can be much more readilyshifted for small amounts than where…
Clocks and watches
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
