Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 831
iscontained within a barrel or circular box, which acts by means of a chain upon the fusee which carriestlie great-wheel, as already explained. Upon the axis of the centre-wheel, between the upper plateand the dial, is fixed the pinion Q; and this drives the wheel T. Upon the spindle of this wheel… … It 8 seen, then, that in the watch, as in the clock, the moving power acts on a wheel which drives apinijn; that this pinion carries on its axis awheel, which drives anotiier pinion carrying another wheel;aw} so on. Hence there is a continual increase of velocity, and at the same time a loss of…
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